On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:18, Allan McRae<al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Dan McGee wrote: >> 1. Making something impossible is never good (this is mostly the >> "unforeseen difficulties" excuse) >> 2. "probably" leaves a lot of wiggle room >> 3. If your name is Allan McRae (or anyone else) and you run an x86_64 >> kernel in an i686 userspace >> 4. If your name is <whoever> and you run random i686 package on a >> mostly-x86_64 machine >> >> Probably more, and some of these are weak, but there is enough of a >> reason to allow it that I think it would be silly to lay down the law >> for people that may need to circumvent the check. >> > > And we all know #3 is the most important! :) > > That said, I like this idea as long as it can be disabled. I have seen > people accidentally stuff there systems by doing this on many occasions. > Although, it does fall into the category of stopping stupid people and we > do have a -Rd option...
Well, I've managed to install i686 pacman-git (replacing old pacman) on my x86_64 system by making a mistake in repo name. :-P -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list pacman-dev@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev