[aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:32:48 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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
> 

Allan, I still don't know how I can solve the above mentioned problem.
As you see I versioned the provides and required the version in this
case and it doesn't help.

As I see it I have the same problem here as Laurie Clark-Michalek.
I believe if this was in AUR and I tried to download calf-git through
yaourt it would try to install lash despite lash-git being installed
already.

Philipp