[arch-general] Best Practices...

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200:
> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:19 +0200, uli.armbruster at googlemail.com wrote:
> > * Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> [28.09.2010 17:41]:
> > > 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
> > and put mplayer into IgnorePkg in the /etc/pacman.conf This way pacman will spit out a warning as soon as there's an update available for mplayer, but doesn't actually update it. You simply have to wait for this message, build mplayer again by yourself with the newer PKGBUILD from abs and you're good.
> 
> Or use bauerbill and set mplayer to automatically compile from abs if
> there's an update =)

I'm curious, what can it actually do? Build from ABS, ok, but
automatically with my modifications? What about alternative packages
only found in AUR?