[aur-general] The Unarchiver and provides field

Cédric Girard girard.cedric at gmail.com
Mon May 23 05:00:03 EDT 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The provides field can be used to satisfy another package's dependency
> on unrar. With that in mind, it doesn't make sense to add it to your
> package if the syntax differs and the two packages cannot be used
> interchangeably.
>

OK. This is what I thought but wanted a confirmation as I was asked to add
such a field.

Thanks,

-- 
Cédric Girard


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