[arch-haskell] Cblrepo and dependencies

[Magnus Therning]

On 29 April 2015 at 12:01, SP <sp at orbitalfox.com> wrote:
> 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

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