2008/5/6 Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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). > Sometimes it is useful to have testing after all other repos though. For example, I have testing after all repos and when a dev asks to signoff some package - I just do pacman -S testing/somepackage to download only that package. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
