On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 19:45:10 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 02:32:58 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 19:14:02 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: > > > How in the world do "minorities" have anything to do with anything > > > in this thread? > > > > A few people mentioned that they run into issues. Did you miss their > > messages? > > > > For example: > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:48:14 +0100, Marcel Kleinfeller wrote: > > [snip] > > > [marcel@oompf ~]$ sudo packer -Syu > > [snip] > > > makepkg: Ungültige Option '--asroot' > > > The build failed > > [snip] > > > > The OP should have used LANG=C or LC_ALL=C to get rid of the German > > messages. > > No, I did not miss them, your terminology was just strange. The people > that have issues need to be educated to do it differently, nothing > more. ^^^^^^^^ Do they need a teacher? The reasons to drop '--asroot' are valid reasons. The style it was dropped IMO is a problem. Fakeroot is a Debian thingy. What does happen if the fakeroot developers ignore common sense of backwards compatibility within a major release? ;) Fakeroot depends on sed. What happens assumed an option for sed should be dropped within a major release? Is community spirit out of style?