[arch-general] Depends on foo-bar=10.0-3

[Eli Schwartz]

On 08/14/2017 08:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:03:45 +0200, mpan wrote:
>>> why does a package from official repositories mentions what version
>>> of a dependency is required?   
>> Because it may be that it is working only with that particular
>> version.
> 
> That doesn't explain why it is needed or in any way useful for a package
> provided by official Arch repositories? Partial upgrades are
> unsupported [1]. Actually it could be vary annoying, if packages now
> start including the version of a dependency. I didn't notice that
> packages mention dependency versions for at least the last 4 years [2].
> It's not the only dummy package I'm using for at least that long. 

Well, it is also done for gcc and gcc-libs. It's generally only used for
things like split packages where there is an extremely strict
codependency between the two packages.

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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