[pacman-dev] [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

[Allan McRae]

On 12/02/10 10:46, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> That documentation from man PKGBUILD still applies, I don't think we
> ever considered it as a bug/problem :
>
>         replaces (array)
>             An array of packages that this package should replace, and
> can be used to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the
>             j2re package is renamed to jre, this directive allows
> future upgrades to continue as expected even though the package has
>             moved. Sysupgrade is currently the only pacman operation
> that utilizes this field, a normal sync will not use its value.
>
> But now I am wondering if replaces could imply conflicts/provides.
> Implicit fields means less control and power to the user/packager though.
>

It could...  but would need some tweaking.  The provides array normally 
is versioned, while the replaces array is not.