On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Xavier Chantry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 14:06:57 schrieb Dan McGee: >>> > and here we have another reason to punish anybody using versioned >>> > dependencies. ;-) (of course upstream needs to be hit, too) >>> >>> Blaming this on versioned deps is punishing the messenger; this >>> package wouldn't upgrade without a force option either because the >>> same version comparison is used everywhere... >> >> You did notice the smiley? I know this wasn't fair in this case and not too >> serious. But anyway, I would prefer add the force flag and add the (stupid) >> upstream version instead of making your own up. >> > > The force flag is a big ugly crap. > I find sanitizing upstream version to be much.. saner. > Or figure out a way to have both a sane version for pacman and the > insane upstream version.
I was actually thinking about this again and thinking epoch might not be a bad idea- I don't know if I had any legit objection to it before but I can't think of one anymore. If someone is interested in implementing, I'd be for it. -Dan
