Hi, why does a package from official repositories mentions what version of a dependency is required? Since the actually optional dependency pulseaudio by upstream often is required as a hard dependency, for no sane reason, I installed a dummy package years ago, to workaround time consuming workarounds. Today I tried to install something and part of the dependency chain of stuff I don't need is pulseaudio-bluetooth. It doesn't matter, I'm willing to install pulseaudio-bluetooth, instead of building another dummy package or rebuilding something. Why does the package pulseaudio-bluetooth dedicated mentions pulseaudio=10.0-3? Why not simply mentioning "pulseaudio" without the version?
Note! I'm not asking anybody not to do it like this! I only want to know the reason for mentioning a version of a dependency, for packages from official repositories, since I don't know any reason. IOW I only want to learn. Regards, Ralf [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ pacman -Si pulseaudio-bluetooth Repository : extra Name : pulseaudio-bluetooth Version : 10.0-3 Description : Bluetooth support for PulseAudio Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/ Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : pulseaudio=10.0-3 bluez bluez-libs sbc Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 50.91 KiB Installed Size : 173.00 KiB Packager : Jan de Groot <j...@archlinux.org> Build Date : Sat 11 Mar 2017 11:21:44 PM CET Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ pacman -Qi pulseaudio Name : pulseaudio Version : 2013.08.18-1 Description : Dummy package Architecture : any URL : None Licenses : None Groups : None Provides : pulseaudio Depends On : None Optional Deps : None Required By : pulseaudio-alsa Optional For : firefox fluidsynth phonon-qt4 phonon-qt5 speech-dispatcher Conflicts With : dummy Replaces : None Installed Size : 4.00 KiB Packager : Unknown Packager Build Date : Sun 18 Aug 2013 06:06:40 PM CEST Install Date : Tue 25 Apr 2017 02:41:25 AM CEST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : None
