On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:19 PM, clemens fischer<ino-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The advantage is easy to see: you can always see what package some file > belongs to, pacman -Qo /path/to/file >and removing a package is as simple as removing matching > links and the installation directory. pacman -R pkgname > All files belonging to a package > are in one place. Well not quite the same, but pacman -Ql pkgname can be used to similar effect > Would going this route for arch-linux packages be seen as an > improvement? Let me get this straight, you propose to use one tool for package management (spill) together with another tool for package management (pacman)? Why? Admittedly symlinking ala spill is a nice and very KISS way of keeping track of files in your system, but since Arch already has a tool to do this, which keeps track of dependencies as well, why use a second one? Henning
