[aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?

[Allan McRae]

hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:46:48 +1000
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>>
>>     
>
> I believe this doesn't work either and the problems are at least
> related.
> Concrete example:
> lash-git: provides=('lash=0.6.0')
> calf-git: depends=('fluidsynth' 'libglade' 'lash>=0.6.0')
>
> namcap calf-git-20090406-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
> calf-git   E: Dependency detected and not included (lash-git) from
> files ['usr/bin/calfjackhost']
> calf-git   W: Dependency included and not needed (lash)
>   

As I said, we have two completely different problems here.  Yours is a 
limitation of namcap and it would be good to file a feature request to 
get it fixed. 

The other "problem" is a PKGBUILD with incomplete provides encountering 
a versioned dependency.  Completely different.

Allan