[arch-general] Best Practices...

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On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> csgeek

use abs to recompile mplayer against x264-git

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