[aur-requests] [PRQ#3918] Merge Request for libtiff4

[Doug Newgard]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 22:06:06 +0200
"Sam S." <smls75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> wrote:
> > Another thing you could consider is making them a split PKGBUILD. Both packages
> > would be built with a single PKGBUILD.
> 
> Could downstream packages specify either libtiff3 or libtiff34 in
> their 'depends', or would they have to specify the pkgbase of the
> split package? I'd like to avoid the latter.

Each package is treated separately, so packages could depend on libtiff3 or
libtiff4 just the same as if they were separate PKGBUILDs.