On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 03.03.2010 04:59, schrieb Dan McGee: >>> 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. > > I was thinking more of having two version numbers. The pkgver and the > optional, internal sanitized pkgver. The internal one is used for > comparison if it exists, but pacman always displays the pkgver for > upstream consistency. Maybe epoch is better, but I wanted to mention > this idea.
I think Thomas' idea is a good one (using some internal number), and using the epoch for the internal value doesn't sound too bad.
