[arch-general] Why is scribus installing gimp-light-2.6.11?

[rafael ff1]

2012/8/11 Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu>:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:29:46 -0500
> "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/10/2012 02:25 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
>> > I can't believe this. You are an Arch user and it never occurred to
>> > you that you should go check with a pacman -Ss gimp-light, and then
>> > when there is no result, check the AUR? How about a pacman -Si
>> > scribus?
>> >
>>
>> Believe it.
>>
>>   Here, the issue isn't "can't you check", the issue is "why did scribus
>> attempt to satisfy a dependency with gimp-light?" That is why I posted the
>> question. I had never seen pacman attempt to satisfy and dependency with a
>> non-existent or aur package before. But it did. The lack of a gimp-light
>> caused pacman to fail to upgrade anything. Thus, the post. The questions
>> wasn't "why isn't gimp-light in the repos?" or "Is AUR the only place for
>> gimp-light?", the question was "why/how is scribus looking for it in the
>> first place?"
>>
>
> It doesn't. Either you have a broken system or a voodoo magician nearby (and
> we don't believe in magic). What was the exact error of pacman?
>
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Indeed it doesn't, David. It seems 'gimp-light' provides 'gimp', so
probably it is needed for some other package of yours.

Maybe you can reproduce the error e paste in here ?

Rafael