[Assist] Error upgrade

Emiliano Ferigutti emilianoferigutti at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 12:15:48 GMT 2023


Thanks for the explanation, now everything is clear to me.

Il mar 14 mar 2023, 11:27 bill-auger <bill-auger at peers.community> ha
scritto:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 06:55:44 +0100 Emiliano wrote:
> > I saw that today the problem has been solved.
> >
> > Il dom 12 mar 2023, 20:08 bill-auger bill-auger ha scritto:
> > > the conflict
> > > is desirable - that is pacman doing it's job, by protecting
> > > other programs from breaking due to upgrading packages which are
> > > not ready to be upgraded
>
> please try to understand though - it is not a "problem", per se -
> it is the solution to a problem; and is done intentionally
>
> several packages have those strict version requirements added for
> this reason, which will cause pacman to hold back conflicting
> versions, routinely, until the version requirements are satisfied
> - if those version requirements were not in place, that would
> cause real problems, and a variety of bug reports, difficult to
> identify - this is only a minor annoyance; but it makes the root
> cause of the bug reports always obvious - most importantly
> though, it ensures that the programs you have already installed
> will continue working
>
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