Re: [pacman-dev] installing two packages conflicting with each other

Actually, I think conflicts and provides are pretty clear. Only replaces is more confusing.

From the man page : replaces (array) : An array of packages that this package should replace, and can be used to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the 'j2re' package is renamed to 'jre', this directive allows future upgrades to continue as expected even though the package has moved.

Renaming package is exactly the case of FS #7415 But should replaces be used together with provides and conflicts ? Aren't provides and conflicts implicit when a package is renamed ? Maybe the problem here is that this renaming happens in another repo (gnome-devel), and so the old package remains in extra.