[aur-general] Flashplugin Duplicates

[Martti Kühne]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Anish Bhatt <anish at archlinux.us> wrote:
> Sadly they weren't merged in this case :(
> Infact, I didn't even know there was support for such a thing. While I would
> have loved merged votes & comments, I'm more concerned about the users left
> in the dark. Would implementing a "replaces" functionality for aur similar
> to the repos be a big hassle ? Perhaps a dummy package¸ say "delete-package"
> that automatically replaces every package that is actually deleted instead
> of being replaced ?
>
>


Hi.

My two cents on the issue: Please avoid top posting.
Well IMO this would be a reason to write a feature request for the
aur-helper you're using, in fact I guess there are helpers that check
for existence of installed packages.
What I don't know is if the AUR ID number will be redirected on merged
packages, which could help implementing replacing /
we-changed-things-on-aur features. I don't think automatically adding
replaces or stuff like this will help because the PKGBUILD is
something we don't want to alter through code in AUR.

cheers!
mar77i