[aur-general] Re-iterating the problem of AUR xorriso and Archlinux libisoburn

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:01:56PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > The provides directive makes sure that people can put something like
> >     depends=('xorriso')
> > in their PKGBUILDs and it will automatically use libisoburn instead --
> 
> Will this also help users who look for xorriso and do
> not expect to find it in a library package ?

Yes, pacman(8) will install libisoburn when trying to install xorriso.

> 
> 
> >     optdepends=('tcl: for xorriso-tcltk')
> > [...]
> > I think the combination of these is what we want, isn't it?
> 
> It will at least be a sufficient improvement of the currently ill
> situation.
> I don't want to pollute your package space with inappropriate
> pseudo thingies.
> 
> So i agree with your proposal. Can you please implement it ?
> In any case: Thanks for caring.

No, I can't. It is in the [extra] repository, so you will need to ask a
developer. The easiest (and best) way of doing this is filing a feature
request on our bug tracker [1].

> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
> 

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/