[arch-general] Pacman v4.0.1-4 could be less verbose

[Ralf Madorf]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 00:02 +0100, Stefan Wilkens wrote:
> 2012/1/25 Ralf Madorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> > Hi :)
> >
> > I wonder if warnings like
> >
> > # pacman -Syu
> > warning: qtractor: local (0.5.3.15-2684) is newer than community
> > (0.5.3-1)
> > warning: rtirq: local (20111007-1) is newer than archaudio-preview
> > (20090920-1)
> >
> > are useful? Once there will be more packages, it will become
> > uncomfortable to read more important output.
> >
> > 2 Cents,
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> 
> This is a pretty significant warning though, that -Syu might lead to a
> library upgrade that breaks the apparently newer than in repo version
> of your application or other unwanted situations. Something is
> non-standard, pacman is warning you of this.
> 
> Having said that, I'd like to add that cherry-picking updates is
> generally a bad idea. You should stick to repository updates unless
> you have a very good reason to cherry pick.


rtirq is outdated and doesn't work with the AUR's kernel-rt, it's from
the archstudio repo that is optimized for Intel Core {i3,i5,i7} CPU, not
important for this script, but regarding to other software I guess my
Athlon dual-core shouldn't use this repo

Sometimes I'm a Qtractor svn tester and at the moment I do the German
translation for Qtractor from svn, so I build it from svn.

For audio there could be many reasons to build current versions, a while
ago I had to build ALSA to get my RME PCIe card work, I had to build
Jack2, to get less MIDI jitter etc..

So for me there are very good reasons. I suspect that upgrades will
break a newer software version than that from the repositories very
often ;), usually older libs tend to cause issues.

IMO this output doesn't make much sense.

Regards,

Ralf