On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:53:04 +0200 Lukas Mosimann <mlukas@ethz.ch> wrote:
Hi all,
Christoph Gysin came up with the problem of split packages that conflict each other, which is implementable in a PKGBUILD.
As an example consider https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=pasystray which defines pasystray and pasystray-gtk2 which cannot be installed both at the same time. Neither aura nor yaourt supports such packages.
There is no other package known to me, but there should be some clarification, whether such a package is allowed.
In my opinion, already the name "split package" indicates that these should not conflict, otherwise it would not just be a split package, but rather something like a "versioned package".
In order to come to a conclusion for the discussion in the comments of that AUR package, I would kindly ask you for your thoughts concerning this problem.
Best, Lukas
While I'm not a fan, it's a valid PKGBUILD, there's a number of them in the repos like this. If your helper can't handle it, it's the helper's problem.