On 19/10/19 9:57 pm, Daan van Rossum wrote:
* on Saturday, 2019-10-19 18:15 +1000, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
/bin/sh -> bash/dash /usr/bin/awk -> gawk/nawk /usr/bin/cc -> gcc/clang
Can we provide alternatives by means of sets of mutually exclusive link packages, using package properties that are already supported in pacman?
sh-bash provides=('sh') depends=('bash') conflicts=('sh-dash') sh-dash provides=('sh') depends=('dash') conflicts=('sh-bash') bash depends('sh') dash depends('sh')
Sure - or we could have a system to handle it in a less obtuse manner... What happens when a new package wants to provide "sh"? We need to rebuild sh-bash and sh-dash? Easy enough, except that assumes that all three packages are packaged by the same group. If bash and dash are packaged by a distro and the new package by a third party, then the conflicts provided by the distro are not enough. But an alternatives system would work.