On 29 April 2015 at 12:01, SP <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/04/15 12:02, Magnus Therning wrote: >> What reasons would that be? > > Maybe some file damage by accident. Also accidentally or under > misconception that this would fix something. It is an operation > supported by pacman, so the package should, _ideally_, cater for it.
As you say, `pacman` supports re-installation, but I'm not sure it's a requirement that all packages are idempotent in the sense that they re-instate changes that *other* packages have caused to the system state. A patch is always welcome, of course. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
