On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:30:39PM -0200, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > 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 *should* know this :-) > It just knows that package (which contains application A0 requires > package libfoo (which contains library libfoo.so.1). In that case, play it safe and don't remove anything that any app could depend on. It's better than making a system instantly unusable. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !
