On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christos Nouskas <nous@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arvid Picciani wrote: >> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ >> >> Let me know if this solution works for everyone >> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >> site or the fact that it exists >> and/or if anything should be added to it. >> >> Contributors very welcome :) > > > Suggestions: > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or -nodbus > or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if they lag > behind the official ones. No, this isn't how pacman works. If his repo comes before the official ones in pacman.conf, it will override them regardless of version comparisons.