On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Timm Preetz <timm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In standard pacman.conf this behaviour is necessary, because otherwise > pacman would install testing-packages (for example) just because they > have higher version. > > And that wouldn't be too good in some cases. > If you want to use testing, it's recommended to use all of it, for obvious linking reasons. That's why testing appears first in pacman.conf (but is disabled by default).