Re: [pacman-dev] Versioned packages

2016-09-21 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 09/21/2016 05:56 AM, Gordian Edenhofer wrote: > You bar for insanity is whether the debian folks do it? Please explain > yourself why do you think this is the wrong approach for the problem. > My reasoning would be that packaging a dummy package would result in > the same 'renamed' package on th

Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH v8 01/12] bacman: allow for multiple packages as arguments

2016-09-21 Thread Gordian Edenhofer
On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 00:08 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 09/09/16 16:21, Allan McRae wrote: > > > > Correct - most changes will be pulled from this patchset.  Just not > > the > > parallelization patches.  I will pull the other patches to my > > patchqueue > > branch soon. > > You can now see w

Re: [pacman-dev] Versioned packages

2016-09-21 Thread Gordian Edenhofer
On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 21:41 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > 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 e