Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Nagy Gabor wrote:
depends files are read in order to ensure that the upgraded package
won't break any "old" dependencies.
Example: local foo requires bar=2.0 (which is installed)
Then "pacman -S bar" is not allowed (if bar in sync has different
version).
I see now, thanks! So if we somehow had an %RDEPENDS% field
(reverse-dependencies) for every package in local that would not be
necessary. I will see if this is doable during every install.
pacman used to do such a thing, but from my understanding it caused more
issues than it solved so it was removed.
Allan
