[arch-general] Cross-repository dependencies (was: libre office java support)

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at xsmail.com
Wed Apr 13 05:29:17 EDT 2011


Heiko Baums wrote:
>
> And, btw., libreoffice can't depend on jre directly, because libreoffice
> is in [extra] and jre is in [community].
>

I thought the same too until i saw packages like gnucash which depend on
aqbanking which is in community:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/aqbanking
I considered opening a bug report, but i dont use gnucash. I would
probably had done so if i did. As usual there is no strict policy about
this that im aware of, but it used to avoided.

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Greg


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