Ah, okay, I didn't know pacman could do that. So this answers my question :) Thanks a lot ! 2009/3/24 Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Cilyan Olowen <gaknar@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, but as far as I know (it's restrictive !) the "provides" array does not allow pacman or any other AUR building tool to find a replacement package if the one that it is looking for does not exist.
I mean, I'm not looking for an option to say "I provide this" but rather "You won't find that, but try this, it will provide what you are looking for".
Cilyan
at least pacman does , for example ###### sudo pacman -S efreet warning: provider package was selected (efreet-svn provides efreet) ###### not sure about AUR building tools, I don't use them.
Ronald