On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 14:06:57 schrieb Dan McGee: >> > and here we have another reason to punish anybody using versioned >> > dependencies. ;-) (of course upstream needs to be hit, too) >> >> Blaming this on versioned deps is punishing the messenger; this >> package wouldn't upgrade without a force option either because the >> same version comparison is used everywhere... > > You did notice the smiley? I know this wasn't fair in this case and not too > serious. But anyway, I would prefer add the force flag and add the (stupid) > upstream version instead of making your own up. > The force flag is a big ugly crap. I find sanitizing upstream version to be much.. saner. Or figure out a way to have both a sane version for pacman and the insane upstream version.
