FS#3726 - Dummy X lib packages in current installed during xorg 7 upgrade
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During upgrade to xorg 7, the following dummy packages from
the current repo were installed:
libx11 0.9.9-1 libsm 0.9.9-1 lixt 0.9.9-1 The testing repo holds the correct 1.0.0-1 version of all of them, but because testing is at the end of my pacman.conf list, the dummys were found first. X was unable to start without these missing libraries. |
This task depends upon
# pacman -S testing/libx11 testing/libsm testing/libxt
I stuck with the latter to try to minimize "cross-repo pollination". The advantage is that the user gets better control over repository preference, as pacman will respect the order you decree in pacman.conf. The disadvantage is the same, as you've found out. :)
I've thought about adding some configurability to some of pacman's algorithms, so power users could tweak the behaviour. But there's a lot going on with pacman3 lately, and it's just not the right time to start fiddling with things like that.
Thanks again for your interest, and please close this non-bug.
Happy now? :D