[arch-general] Best Practices...

[Samir]

I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling
these types of scenarios...

I've seen this come up with several packages....

If I install mplayer and x264 from pacman, but then pull x264-git from
aur, and install that.

x264 conflicts with x264-git which makes sense.. but then mplayer
suddenly is broken because libx264.so.104.

Basically mplayer isn't aware that x264-git  (which naturally
conflicts with the x264 package).

Now, to be fair.. mplayer probably should have been linked against
libx264.so rather then libx264.so.104 (-git package provides a
libx264.so.105).

When I was on a purely from source distro, I'd just force a rebuild of
mplayer and its dependencies...and that would fixed the issue.

from a user perspective:  what's the solution to these types of
situations.  (creating a symlink to the .so file doesn't count).

from a packager perspective:  Should we do anything in particular to
take these sorts of situations into account and try to avoid some of
these problems.

is instructing the user to pull the abs source the solution?

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csgeek