[arch-general] Cross-repository dependencies (was: libre office java support)

Heiko Baums wrote:

And, btw., libreoffice can't depend on jre directly, because libreoffice is in [extra] and jre is in [community].

I thought the same too until i saw packages like gnucash which depend on aqbanking which is in community: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/aqbanking I considered opening a bug report, but i dont use gnucash. I would probably had done so if i did. As usual there is no strict policy about this that im aware of, but it used to avoided. ---- Greg