On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
I have the feeling this has been hashed/rehashed/blended before, but why aren't we just doing something like:
provides=('myenv') libprovides=('libx.so' 'liby.so')
To me, this seems a lot clearer and alleviates the black magic concerns of changing depends/provides arrays on the fly.
I got confused by 'myenv', its supposed to be a normal provision like 'cron' ? Anyway libprovides sounds fine to me, but the question is where do we propagate this distinction, because there is no difference for pacman. Should there also be a libprovides in PKGINFO and %LIBPROVIDES% in db, and pacman will just read these two and merge them with provides ? Or can they both be merged at the PKGINFO level ?