On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Arvid Picciani <aep@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > if someone actually posts patches or other constructive stuff, please CC > me. We're rewriting pacman anyway and looking for a solution to handle > this mess in particular. > > Right now the only idea i got is versioned deps which is sort of flawed > since that would assert a certain awareness upstream. And if we had > that, we didnt have the problem in the first place... > > maybe there is a smarter way to force update of packages that would break > when their dependencies are updated. > If people actually read my 10 lines mail, and spent more time to think and less time to write, maybe the thread could have gone forward rather than backward ? The last discussions on the sodepends/soprovides proposal are there : http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-January/010386.html http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-February/ It's not the first time I regret posting to arch-general, I should have kept this on pacman-dev only, discussions tend to be much more constructive there with much less noise. Anyway, care to explain what you are rewriting pacman for ? There are probably plenty of good reasons to do that, I am just curious to know if you have any :)
