On 08/14/2017 08:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:03:45 +0200, mpan wrote: >>> why does a package from official repositories mentions what version >>> of a dependency is required? >> Because it may be that it is working only with that particular >> version. > > That doesn't explain why it is needed or in any way useful for a package > provided by official Arch repositories? Partial upgrades are > unsupported [1]. Actually it could be vary annoying, if packages now > start including the version of a dependency. I didn't notice that > packages mention dependency versions for at least the last 4 years [2]. > It's not the only dummy package I'm using for at least that long.
Well, it is also done for gcc and gcc-libs. It's generally only used for things like split packages where there is an extremely strict codependency between the two packages. -- Eli Schwartz
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