On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:28:17PM -0200, Gabriel B. Casella wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Lieven Moors <lievenmoors@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if it would be ok to let my package (non-daw-git) depend on the ntk-git package instead of ntk. The package ntk is not yet available in AUR, but ntk-git is. I think technically, ntk-git should provide ntk, and non-daw-git should depend on some git-release of ntk. The downside for the user is that helpers like yaourt won't find the dependency.
BTW, I just did a small test here and yaourt does find the ntk-git dependency through AUR.
Ah, I should have checked it myself again. I think the problem was that AUR doesn't allow you to search for provides through the web interface. And another problem was that when you rebuild non-daw-git, you forget that most of the time you have to rebuild ntk-git as well, and yaourt has no way of knowing that. I already left a message for the ntk-git maintainer. If he would include the commit count in the version string, it should be possible to depend on a specific git "release". I guess that would be the best solution... lieven