Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-23 Thread Andrei Thorp
So this explains the reporter mishaps perfectly then. They take your e-mails, freely change them, and then write their articles :) -Andrei Thorp On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira > wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:0

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-23 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >>  pacman cares because pacman will try it's hardest to never ever break >> your system unless you say so. If pacman has no knowledge of files in >> your system, it'd be amazing

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-23 Thread David C. Rankin
Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > Op Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:10 -0500 > schreef "David C. Rankin" : > >> no /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. I had a /usr/share/fonts/truetype >> directory so I just softlinked the missing TTF to truetype to get rid >> to the error on startx. startx liked the solution. > >

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-23 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:10 -0500 schreef "David C. Rankin" : > no /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. I had a /usr/share/fonts/truetype > directory so I just softlinked the missing TTF to truetype to get rid > to the error on startx. startx liked the solution. Softlinking is just patching the syste

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> checking package integrity... >> (12/12) checking for file conflicts >> [#] 100% >> error: could not prepare transaction >> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicti

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-22 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > pacman cares because pacman will try it's hardest to never ever break > your system unless you say so. If pacman has no knowledge of files in > your system, it'd be amazingly stupid to blindly overwrite them. What > happens if I wrote a big

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-22 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > checking package integrity... > (12/12) checking for file conflicts > [#] 100% > error: could not prepare transaction > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) > ttf-dejavu: /usr/s

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I ran into my first problem with pacman and, I know what caused the problem, but I need to understand why pacman thought it was a problem to begin with. Here is the situation: Trying to start X, and one complaint was no /usr/share/fonts/TTF di