[pacman-dev] Fwd: [arch-general] Removing infinality

[Allan McRae]

On 28/09/16 17:14, Martin Kühne wrote:
> ...actually, would a mechanism like beneath implemented natively in
> pacman be worth a feature request?
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i
> 


I have no context, so I'll assume we can already do that and it is user
error.

Allan

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martin Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> 
> 
> Just a thought. If you find the excerpt in the pacman logs where you
> did the transaction got you into this mess, you might be able to
> reverse just that without risking too much for the current install and
> save you a complete reinstall. Ignoring dependencies is then not so
> bad, because you then just install the packages again that were
> uninstalled to get you into this.
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i
> 
>