On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Cilyan Olowen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, but as far as I know (it's restrictive !) the "provides" array > does not allow pacman or any other AUR building tool to find a > replacement package if the one that it is looking for does not exist. > > I mean, I'm not looking for an option to say "I provide this" but > rather "You won't find that, but try this, it will provide what you > are looking for". > > Cilyan
at least pacman does , for example ###### sudo pacman -S efreet warning: provider package was selected (efreet-svn provides efreet) ###### not sure about AUR building tools, I don't use them. Ronald
