[aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?

[Allan McRae]

Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote:
> 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.
>   

That is a different problem....  

The brasero-lite PKGBUILD should have provides=("brasero=2.26.0") in 
it.  Sound-juicer requires "brasero>=2.26.0" so just providing brasero 
is not enough.

Allan