On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:53:04 +0200 Lukas Mosimann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Christoph Gysin came up with the problem of split packages that conflict > each other, which is implementable in a PKGBUILD. > > As an example consider > https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=pasystray which > defines pasystray and pasystray-gtk2 which cannot be installed both at > the same time. Neither aura nor yaourt supports such packages. > > There is no other package known to me, but there should be some > clarification, whether such a package is allowed. > > In my opinion, already the name "split package" indicates that these > should not conflict, otherwise it would not just be a split package, but > rather something like a "versioned package". > > In order to come to a conclusion for the discussion in the comments of > that AUR package, I would kindly ask you for your thoughts concerning > this problem. > > Best, > Lukas While I'm not a fan, it's a valid PKGBUILD, there's a number of them in the repos like this. If your helper can't handle it, it's the helper's problem.
