[artix-general] icu - run both versions

[Christos Nouskas]

On 22 November 2017 at 23:53, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 06:12:20PM -0300, Chris Cromer wrote:
>> As far as how a problem happens with pacman. During a pacman upgrade,
>> if it finds conflicting files, symlinks, or directories that it does
>> not manage, it stop the whole upgrade.
>
> That doesn't seem to stop it from rewriting my mysql configuation
> repeatedly.  I would need to have a clearer understanding of the rules
> because at the moment, my workstation is a chock ful of such things,
> including multiple perl, pythons, netbeans, and other non-pacman aps and
> libraries and pacman doesn't seem to care less.  It would be somewhat
> helpful if it did do that.  Then it would stop rewriting my netbeans
> configs.

Something is not right here. Read pacman(8), section "HANDLING CONFIG
FILES". What _might_ be happening is that some install script is doing
this, not pacman itself.