[aur-general] Remove vimperator-git

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 13:46:31 EDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Under the current conventions, it is necessary to change the package
>> name whenever the underlying version control system (VCS) is changed.
>> Perhaps there should be a policy that encourages a more general suffix
>> for such packages: "vimperator-vcs".
>
> I guess my `replaces=(vimperator-git)' took care of it. :-)
>
> I was wondering whether that would happen; I guess I should have checked.
>

BTW replaces only has an effect when put in a sync db for pacman.
So it is completely useless on AUR, at least from pacman point of
view, but I am not aware of any other usage of this field.
You can only use provides/conflicts


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