Finally, this would prevent proper upgrades to partially complete
rebuilds. That is fine for some users who would like such things, but
the people doing and testing a rebuild would have issues. I upgraded
the libpng/libjpeg rebuild packages while there were still several
packages needing to be rebuilt for my system. With this patch, I would
be required to do an incredibly stupid "pacman -Syud".
I can't see any problem here. If you are going to break some
dependencies on your system, pacman should disallow that, like with
"regular" dependencies. This is exactly our goal: To avoid system
breakage with partial updates.
Packagers should know what they are doing... Moreover, I can also
support adding some more sophisticated dependency switches (maybe
hidden from end-users), if needed. (Personally, I don't like that I
can't turn on resolvedeps with -d. Moreover, in many cases it is worth
distinguishing target_pkg->foo broken dependencies from local_pkg->foo
broken [reverse]deps.)
Bye
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