On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:04:57 +0100 Dan Vratil <progdan@progdansoft.com> wrote:

Hi, I'm maintaining nvidia-utils-beta [1] in AUR and tomorrow someone had again problem with the following conflict: nvidia-utils-beta requires xorg-server which requires libgl, but nvidia-utils- beta conflicts with libgl as it provides it's own libgl library.

I added ligbl to provides=() array, but if you are installing nvidia-utils- beta on system with installed libgl, pacman does not solve that. I also tried to put 'libgl=180.11' to provides=() in hope, pacman will consider it as update of standart libgl (7.2 currently) but it is also not a solution.

The only way is to pacman -Rd libgl and then to install nvidia-utils-beta, but I'd like to make it work without need of manually uninstalling libgl.

i think exactly the same thing happens with the packages in extra may it be catalys-utils or nvidia-utils. i always have to pacman -Rd libgl when i want to install them. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci@satgnu.net>