On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jeff Mickey <jeff@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 14:47, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think it would need versioning for that. libtorrent with replaces=(libtorrent-rasterbar) in extra will take precedence over libtorrent in community.
I also don't mind changing the name of libtorrent in community to libtorrent-rakshasa, as I believe rtorrent is the only consumer of his libtorrent.
That's what I was getting at. "libtorrent" in community is not the popular "libtorrent" and gets a tad confusing. Plus only rtorrent uses it.
The only weird thing I see is, then updating my package, I'd have to put a "replaces=(libtorrent)".. and I think that might cause a weird circular replacement thingie.
Hmm, wouldn't changing the rtorrent dep take care of this? The current libtorrent would be replaced by the one in extra, and rtorrent would pull in libtorrent-rakshasa... which would conflict.
I wonder if a conflicts=() line would solve everything.
That is a weird and interesting dependency problem. I would suggest doing two steps : 1) rename libtorrent in a new libtorrent-rakshasa package, which conflicts with libtorrent<=0.12.2 (and no other dep statements) and in the same time, a new rtorrent package which depends on libtorrent-rakshasa 2) rename libtorrent-rasterbar in a new libtorrent package, which provides/conflicts/replaces libtorrent-rasterbar It should be possible to do both steps in the same time, but 2) should not be done before 1). However my personal feeling is that these two projects were stupid and arrogant to use such a generic name as libtorrent, and they both deserve to be renamed. Also it might be unfair to only rename one. And renaming both would be the most clear/explicit and less confusing solution. So my favorite choice would be to have libtorrent-rakshasa and libtorrent-rasterbar :) But if one has to be called libtorrent, I agree it should be the most widely used one. And from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libtorrent, the difference is quite clear. * Libtorrent (Rakshasa) which powers rTorrent. * Libtorrent (Rasterbar) which powers BTG, Deluge, Free Download Manager, Halite, Linkage, Miro, qBittorrent, SharkTorrent, and many more.