On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Uwe Koloska <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want to create a package for an app that needs either pyaudio or (as > an alternative) pygame. How can I write this in the PKGBUILD?
Mauro's reply is the technically correct one - however, I'm questioning your logic. The two packages are not alternates of the same thing; pyaudio is simply the audio bindings, whereas pygame is for writing games. Your app needing "one or the other" is a logic split - either you need the audio bindings, or you need the gaming code -- they don't even provide the same shared binary modules or play on the same field. Just require pyaudio since you're in AUR and it's a quick, easy build then make your Optional for pygame if you want. The provides/requires as Mauro outlines is when two packages provide the same functionality -- for example, Exim and Postfix provide "smtp-server" so an app who requires smtp-server is satisfied by A or B. Your app/package trying to require pyaudio/pygame as equal alternates is just... questionable. $0.02, -te
