Ah, okay, I didn't know pacman could do that. So this answers my question :)
Thanks a lot ! 2009/3/24 Ronald van Haren <[email protected]>: > 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 >
