On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Nagy Gabor wrote: >>> >>> Redux: >>> /usr/lib/zomg.so is not owned by any package. Allow foobar-1.0-2 to >>> overwrite this file? [y/N] >>> >>> Optional: >>> s/overwrite/claim ownership of/ >>> >> >> In this case we don't need overwrite option at all, right? (This can be >> detected automatically. However, this detection is slow.) >> > > I had just thought the same thing but why would it be so slow? Would the > conflict checking not already find the conflict with an unowned file on the > system and so this is just adding a query?
I don't think we'd want to do this automatically. What if I actually installed something via "make install" and don't want it overwritten? Or perhaps I want a chance to C-c the operation to fiddle with these overwrite files... _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
