Re: [aur-general] Handling of virtual packages

2016-09-21 Thread David Phillips
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:19:10AM +0200, Martin Kühne via aur-general wrote: > > It is also a good idea to use conflicts=() to prevent packages from > providing the same thing from being installed. I'd clarify this by saying that if two packages have conflicting files, pacman will still not allo

Re: [aur-general] Handling of virtual packages

2016-09-21 Thread Martin Kühne via aur-general
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:12 PM, buckket wrote: > As there some programs out there which use redo’s .do files in their > building process it’s important that they can specify redo, or any of > the existing implementations in their makedepends. But as far as I know > there is no way to specify eit

Re: [aur-general] Handling of virtual packages

2016-09-20 Thread Pedro A . López-Valencia via aur-general
On 20/09/2016 3:12 p. m., buckket wrote: > Hey, > > I’m currently maintaining serval packages on the AUR which are all > implementations of djb’s redo[0], an incremental build system. However > there are minor differences between all those implementations, and as > djb never wrote one himself the

[aur-general] Handling of virtual packages

2016-09-20 Thread buckket
Hey, I’m currently maintaining serval packages on the AUR which are all implementations of djb’s redo[0], an incremental build system. However there are minor differences between all those implementations, and as djb never wrote one himself there is no "offical" one. That’s why I decided to give t