On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Ray Rashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be alright for kernel packages to provide for others that depend on > in-kernel features/functionalities, say, those from patches? Right now > kernel26 has the linux-phc patch, and the following is a GUI tool to do what > can be done, well, graphically: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17059 > > As you can see, it could either skip the kernel26 dependency and tell the > user about the patch in install script - or - include the dependency like > the above case and expect the user to adjust PKGBUILD for other kernels with > the same patch. >
Yeah, that seems doable, there could be a virtual linux-phc provision, provided by kernel26 packages and other kernel packages with that patch. Then this phctool could depend on linux-phc. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
