On 09/19/2016 11:49 AM, Gordian Edenhofer wrote: > What about adding a new option to pacman's '-D, --database' operator > which would enable users to rename packages and add a corresponding > provide field. This would empower everyone to decide on their own which > packages they want in different versions and which they don't want. > Pacman would handle file conflicts as usual without introducing a new > kind of packages. Plus it would avoid discussions about which package > should be a dummy package and which shouldn't be.
Was that meant to be some sort of a joke? Because even Debian is not that insane, AFAIK. -- Eli Schwartz