On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:07:18AM +0100, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:49:50AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > We only support the latest packages in the repos, so if you have > > issues with old versions of packages or packages from unsupported > > sources, then it is up to _you_ to fix them. > > I don't have issues with them, except that they get > deleted when they shouldn't be. > > What happens now is that if I have a package > that depends on a library that has been updated > in the repos, you take the liberty to disable > that package when by chance I installl something > completely unrelated that just happens to use > the same library in a new version. > > I don't ask you to 'support' my old package. Just > to leave it alone. And that is *not* in conflict > with your desire to use the a new library in the > all repo packages. It is completely unrelated to > maintaining a repo. > It seems you don't get the point. Arch provides a way to deal with such a situation through the AUR. And, actually, you ask to support your old package. I guess you'll find a package out there which still depends on - let´s say - libpng02. I think it is pretty impossible for a rolling distro to just leave it alone (from distro-side - on user-side you can do what you like). --
