29 Apr
2015
29 Apr
'15
7:04 a.m.
On 29 April 2015 at 12:01, SP
On 27/04/15 12:02, Magnus Therning wrote:
What reasons would that be?
Maybe some file damage by accident. Also accidentally or under misconception that this would fix something. It is an operation supported by pacman, so the package should, _ideally_, cater for it.
As you say, `pacman` supports re-installation, but I'm not sure it's a requirement that all packages are idempotent in the sense that they re-instate changes that *other* packages have caused to the system state. A patch is always welcome, of course. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus