On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue 10 Nov 2009 08:12 -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:42, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Chris Brannon <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> 2. luaexpat is required by all the prosody packages, whereas lua-expat >> >> is only required by lua-gtk. >> >> >> > >> > lua-expat : provides=(luaexpat) >> > >> >> Does the AUR parse provides= when listing depends? Pacman can use that >> info *if it's in a repo*, but can the same be said for AUR? > > No, but that is something you should write when renaming a package. > And I don't think we should keep badly named packages around. > Change 'em and let the dependents catch up. This is 'unsupported' after > all. > >
Maybe it's worth to extend here, to avoid bad package naming in the future. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Package_Naming Best Regards, Laszlo Papp
