On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:17:44PM -0700, Jason Chu wrote: > The reason - is only allowed in pkgname and nowhere else is a parsing > issue. > > Take this as an example: foo-bar-1.0-08-9.tar.gz. Is that the package > foo-bar with a version of 1.0-08 and a release of 9 or is the package > foo with a version of bar-1.0 and a release 08-9 or is the package foo > with a version bar and pkgrel of 1.0-08-9? It's too ambiguous. That's > the reason behind the requirement. Does anyone use a pkgrel that is not a number?
When this would be convention, we could drop the annoying issue with dashes in the pkgname and allow them in the next pacman release. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/
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