On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > pacman cares because pacman will try it's hardest to never ever break > your system unless you say so. If pacman has no knowledge of files in > your system, it'd be amazingly stupid to blindly overwrite them. What > happens if I wrote a big long OOo document and saved it (stupidly) as > /usr/bin/mydoc and then pacman decided to install an app named > "mydoc". Poof, lost my work. > > I know the above is a contrived example, but it serves to illustrate > the point: pacman is not in control of your system. You are. Pacman > will never say "I know better than you, so I'll just replace this with > what I think it should be". Instead it will say "woah woah woah... you > did something I don't understand. You deal with it and tell me when > you figured it out" > These two paragraphs are great, Aaron! Would you mind if I add them to the wiki page of Pacman regarding the "something: something exists in filesystem" error, or is it too much informality for the wiki? -- Malformed message exception
