On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira <g.maionogueira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Feel free to do what you want. All my mails are licensed under the WTFPL[1] 1: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING
