On 08/15/2017 03:47 AM, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general wrote: > Yes, partial upgrades are unsupported, but in practice this still happens, > usually not deliberately. For instance, I will quite often do a "pacman -S > <package>" without doing a full system update first, assuming that > *probably* nothing important has changed since the last update. It's a > sloppy practice, but humans cut corners: it happens. When a plugin relies > on a potentially unstable ABI (not many applications offer stable ABIs), > specifying that the plugin package requires that exact version of the > application will ensure that mistakes like this don't happen. > > If I see an error like "package x requires y=1.2.3" when installing a > package, the first thing I'll try is a system update, an obscure segfault > is avoided, and everyone's happy. So the failsafe does the job. It's good > defensive practice by the packaging team, I think. What. No, the packaging team explicitly does not care about you, and official policy is to yell at you for having once upon a time run pacman -Sy without -u That is pretty deliberate on your part. -- Eli Schwartz
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