23 May
2011
23 May
'11
10:51 a.m.
2011/5/23 Cédric Girard
Hi,
I'm maintaining The Unarchiver PKGBUILD [1] in the AUR. The Unarchiver is an objective-c application for uncompressing archive file. This is AFAIK the only free implementation of RARv3 format.
As this application provides an unrar functionnality, does it make sense to add a "provides=('unrar')" field in the PKGBUILD? The Unarchiver is not a drop-in replacement for the "unrar" command. The binary are not the same and the syntax is different.
The provides field can be used to satisfy another package's dependency on unrar. With that in mind, it doesn't make sense to add it to your package if the syntax differs and the two packages cannot be used interchangeably.