On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 03:55:23 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:25:11 -0600, Eli Schwartz wrote: > > I myself would dearly love to know what precisely about removing a > > discouraged option qualifies as a major change. > > Maybe the answer depends to the reason, that the discouraged option > was provided for some _unknown_ reason. ... The reason is mentioned in the commit removing the option: https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=61ba5c961e4a3536c4bbf41edb348987a9993fdb