[pacman-dev] fglrx-utils preferred over libgl-dri

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 16:43:47 EDT 2007


On 10/19/07, Alexander Baldeck <kth5 at archlinuxppc.org> wrote:
> I renamed libgl-dri to just libgl. fglrx-utils and nvidia-utils still
> provide libgl but now must be explicitly installed. Then it's all back
> to the way it used to work. Pacman will just ignore the real libgl
> package on upgrades.

Erm. I don't know if this is a real question or rhetorical, but I just
want to point out that package names are searched for an exact match
first, THEN provides, so a package will always be installed BEFORE a
provides entry.




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