On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nagy Gabor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I think the problem is known for everyone, if a user upgrades a package > (without -Su), he can easily get "error while loading shared libraries". > > The most perfect (but maybe overkill) solution is Florian's one: > http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-August/009158.html > (that patch needs some work on optdepends side, but that is not so > complicated.) > > I mention a simpler one: Add a new switch to upgrade reversedeps too > (recursively), ie. "pacman -S --reversedeps libjpeg" would upgrade all > packages depend on (the local) libjpeg. This should be straightforward > to implement and imho this is a bit more sophisticated than the "pacman > -Syu libjpeg" request (see bugs.archlinux.org :-P). > > Opinions?
Did you ever think about this more? I'm not sure I like the name of the flag, but the idea is interesting. I have the feeling more times than not it will pull in a *lot* of things (something equivalent to doing -Rsc <pkgname>) in order to be "correct". -Dan
