On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:08:33 +0800 Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/02/2010, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:55:57PM +0100, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > >> 2010/1/31, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > that means that cdrkit has been renamed to cdrtools ? :-) > >> > >> Of course, it means that the software has benn renamed or replaced > >> by another one. > > > > So it can mean two very different things. > > > > Which means that the exact background of the question > > 'Replace kernel-headers by api-headers ?' is unclear, > > and that the OP had good reason to ask what it meant. > > Pacman did *not* tell him this was just a rename. > > Oh nono, $replaces isn't used like that. When for instance you have > deleted a package and brought in a new one with a different name, > often due to a name change (upstream or not), you need to make sure > pacman will know and seamlessly "update" to the new package. > Sometimes, projects go defunct and forks become active. > > Asking the user to answer the question resolves one big thing: > > 1) He will not complain later; he won't be freaked out when he finds > one of his packages is missing and/or the system has something he > can't recall installing. > > > -- > GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD I understand what you are saying but it comes back to KISS ideals. The Arch user should know exactly what's happening to their system and not just let everything happen automagically.
