On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Andrei Thorp<garoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Sat Jun 20 21:37:11 -0400 2009: >> Caleb Cushing wrote: >> > I can't figure out why pacman thinks that deps aren't being fulfilled. >> > >> > Targets (1): perl-datetime-0.50-1 >> > <snip> >> > :: perl-datetime-format-strptime: requires perl-datetime>=0.4304 >> > >> >> 50 is not >= 4304 >> >> Allan > > Hmm. That's kind of unfortuante. Chances are, .5x is actually meant to be > greater than the .4xxx. Guess the best you can do is force it? :S Yeah some people do terrible things with version numbers. They are NOT decimal numbers, they are independent numbers joined by dots. You can do pacman -Ud to skip dep checks if you're sure the deps are good.
