[arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 05:29 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote:
> Ray Kohler wrote:
> > > Suggestions:
> > >
> > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or
> > > -nodbus or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if
> > > they lag behind the official ones.
> > 
> > No, this isn't how pacman works. If his repo comes before the official
> > ones in pacman.conf, it will override them regardless of version
> > comparisons.
> 
> 
> I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's 
> custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided 
> packages are not the nightly builds of <insert_your_fav_app> but ones like 
> xorg-server?
> 
In the preceding conversations some have said they would. The whole
point of his repo is to maintain separate versions of xorg-server sans
some bloat.