On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, quite sure. First off, we have the old behavior, which matches > the above. Second, we have the reason for the old behavior, which is > that a depend can be specified as such: > foobar<=1.5 > and foobar 1.5-13 needs to meet this requirement (aka 1.5 cmp 1.5-13 > should yield 0). So a pkgrel is no sign of being newer, only a sign of > something different to compare, and not to be compared until the > versions are identical. >
That is all correct, but to be honest, I don't like much the ambiguity, obscurity and confusion caused by this, which would not happen if we only used versioned deps like : foobar <= 1.5-1 or foobar < 1.6-1 _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
