-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: arch-dev-public-bounces@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public- bounces@archlinux.org] Namens Alexander Baldeck Verzonden: donderdag 27 september 2007 15:59 Aan: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development CC: Discussion list for pacman development Onderwerp: [arch-dev-public] fglrx-utils preferred over libgl-dri

Hey all,

I was just about to upgrade oxine and it used to only depend on xine-lib. xine-lib pulls a great deal of xorg stuff but then one strange thing happened. pacman felt like fglrx-utils would be the right package to pull to fulfill the requirement of 'libgl' on the system.

Now I would like to not have that, what would happen if I were to go and change pkgname of libgl-dri to just libgl since Jan dropped libgl-mesa long ago? Pacman should prefer the real pkgname over provides, right?

Go for it. Since pacman installs the first lib it can find in the provides if the real lib isn't found, it always defaults to fglrx, or whatever is in testing when you use that one.