[aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?

[Laurie Clark-Michalek]

I disagree. This same thing happens to me with my package "brasero-lite". It
is brasero but without the gnome dependencies, and has the
provides=('brasero'), but when I try and install a package that has brasero
as a dependencie, such as sound-juicer, pacman attempts to install brasero,
not realising that i allready have brasero-lite. This isn't a sound juicer
fault, it is a fault in pacman.

2009/4/6 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>

> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
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>> Hi there.
>> I'm looking for a clean way to handle packages that can replace others.
>> Examples:
>> lash can be substituted by lash-git, it works fine, except namcap
>> complains:
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>> hydrogen-svn E: Dependency detected and not included (lash-git) from
>> files ['usr/bin/hydrogen']
>> hydrogen-svn W: Dependency included and not needed (lash)
>>
>> Adding 'lash' or 'lash=0.6.0' to the provides array of lash-git doesn't
>> help.
>> I have the same situation with for example jack-audio-connection-kit
>> where we have quite a number of different packages that all provide the
>> same basic functionality and are interchangeable.
>>
>> Note that it mostly works with provides, it just isn't clean and there
>> are cases where it can break stuff.
>> Is there a solution to this?
>>
>>
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> I think this is more a limitation in namcap than your package.  I think a
> bug report for namcap would be appropriate.
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> Allan
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