Thursday, September 12, 2024

Re: rust-{clippy,rustfmt} missing dependency on rust

On 2024/09/12 12:39, Matthew Martin wrote:
> > I think that does make sense (and is OK) but it won't directly fix the
> > issue Matthew is seeing (the result then would have been that neither of
> > rust, rust-fmt, rust-clippy got updated).
>
> That is all I was hoping for: that pkg_add -u wouldn't break any already
> installed packages. (Of course now I need to update to get clippy and
> rustfmt to work again, but that's what one signs up for when running
> snapshots.)

Considering it's not too uncommon for packages to get broken _during_ a
run of pkg_add (for example I've seen this with vim when there's been an
glib2 update with a major bump), I think it's quite likely that pkg_add -u
would break existing packages if it can't update everything.

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