On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Linux and BSD user space is software based on other software. Yaourt > and some other software does need pacman. Pacman needs bash, curl and > other packages and those packages depend on other packages too. > > This policy does only work, when there are agreements about backwards > compatibility. > > makepkg provided the --asroot option and within a major release it > dropped backwards compatibility. Fortunately it is a minor issue that > --asroot is dropped, but the real issue is that it already might be a > fashion not to care about other software, not to care about work flows, > IOW to be careless, ignorant. > So what exactly is the issue here? pacman has engaged in healthy thought about the respective pros/cons of removing --asroot, and you acknowledge that that is all right... therefore it necessitates mentioning that Just In Case on a completely unrelated note everyone gets attacked by a vicious case of wanting to drop backwards compatibility for the lulz, we should remember it is a Bad Thing to do so? -- Eli Schwartz
