On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:09:06 +0200 > schrieb Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> As pacman will happily install multiple replacement packages, I would >> suggest removing the provides= line from libreoffice-common and adding >> replaces=libreoffice to the split packages that should get installed >> when upgrading. > > And 'libreoffice-langpack' needs to be removed from depends of > libreoffice-common. It doesn't make much sense to have it in depends > and in optdepends anyway. I think it's better to keep it in > optdepends, maybe with a post install note that no language package > has been installed. > > Because of this someone got his language pack been uninstalled and > replaced by a different one by pacman -Syu. > > See the bug report I have mentioned earlier. > > Heiko > i thought there was a choosing phase before actually install a language pack when upgrading. the default choice is alphabetically the first, which may caused the problem you just depicted. best regards,