[aur-general] Deletion request

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue 10 Nov 2009 08:12 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:42, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Chris Brannon <cmbrannon79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> 2. luaexpat is required by all the prosody packages, whereas lua-expat
>> >> is only required by lua-gtk.
>> >>
>> >
>> > lua-expat : provides=(luaexpat)
>> >
>>
>> Does the AUR parse provides= when listing depends? Pacman can use that
>> info *if it's in a repo*, but can the same be said for AUR?
>
> No, but that is something you should write when renaming a package.
> And I don't think we should keep badly named packages around.
> Change 'em and let the dependents catch up. This is 'unsupported' after
> all.
>
>

Maybe it's worth to extend here, to avoid bad package naming in the future.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Package_Naming

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp