On 19/10/19 9:57 pm, Daan van Rossum wrote:
> * on Saturday, 2019-10-19 18:15 +1000, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org>
> wrote:
>
>> /bin/sh -> bash/dash
>> /usr/bin/awk -> gawk/nawk
>> /usr/bin/cc -> gcc/clang
>
> Can we provide alternatives by means of sets of mutually exclusive link
> packages, using package properties that are already supported in pacman?
>
> sh-bash
> provides=('sh')
> depends=('bash')
> conflicts=('sh-dash')
> sh-dash
> provides=('sh')
> depends=('dash')
> conflicts=('sh-bash')
> bash
> depends('sh')
> dash
> depends('sh')
>
Sure - or we could have a system to handle it in a less obtuse manner...
What happens when a new package wants to provide "sh"? We need to
rebuild sh-bash and sh-dash? Easy enough, except that assumes that all
three packages are packaged by the same group. If bash and dash are
packaged by a distro and the new package by a third party, then the
conflicts provided by the distro are not enough. But an alternatives
system would work.
