Eric Belanger wrote:
> The reason pacman complains about broken dependency is because when it
> goes on to remove libraw1394, it doesn't know that libraw1394-svn will be
> installed a few seconds later.

I'd have to disagree. pacman knows that the -svn package will be 
installed, because we've just told it, i.e. pacman -A 
libraw1394-svn-32768.pkg.tar.gz. Not only that, but pacman knows about 
the conflict, because it has read the -svn .PKGINFO file - the same file 
that gives pacman the provides= info.

So, should it not be possible to do pacman -Qi $provides and exclude any 
packages on the 'Required By' list from the dependency check?

Before anyone says 'OK, so where's your patch?' - I'm no developer, 
apart from which this only occurred to me while reading this thread. 
Maybe this is all taken care of in pacman 3?

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