Jason Chu writes (and Redshift makes the same point): > In your case, darcs' dependencies >were satisfied, a curl update didn't *need* to happen. If darcs had >depended on a certain version of curl that wasn't installed, curl would >have been updated.
Thanks for the explanation. I withdraw my suggestion for adding a sentence to the manpage. It might interest you to know that in the incident in question, curl was depending on openssl>=0.9.7, but curl refused to continue when it did not find libssl.so.0.9.7 exactly. (I had an up-to-date libssl (version 0.9.8) and a not-up-to-date curl.) Anyway a pacman -Su fixed the problem, and if I had used -Su instead of -S darcs in the first place, then AFAICT I would have never encountered the problem. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
