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schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 960

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Package Version Requirements

Is there a need for us to require specific versions of packages when the upstream does? Since we are rolling-release, and "pacman -Syu" is at the top of the list to solve a package problem, can't we do without >=/<=?

For some packages where the cases are different, i.e kernels and modules, it's understandable. But not every package is a special case aside from those in testing/unsupported.

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