On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:20 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But then: pacman knows that A is installed and > depends on libfoo.so.1. But still it removes > that library. Why ? I'd just say it fails to > do its job, part of which is being aware of > dependencies. In fact, pacman doesn't know that application A needs libfoo.so.1. It just knows that package (which contains application A0 requires package libfoo (which contains library libfoo.so.1). That's the point. Pacman just tracks dependencies as described in the depends array of the PKGBUILD file. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
