Re: [arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-21 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Xavier wrote: > > > That's what provisions are for. > > > > > Wouln't that require that e.g. tetex and texlive have something like? > > provides=( "tex" ) > > In practice, how many packages include such a generi

Re: [arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-21 Thread Xavier
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Neil Darlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouln't that require that e.g. tetex and texlive have something like? > > provides=( "tex" ) > > In practice, how many packages include such a generic provides entry? From > what I've seen most packages' depends rely sole

Re: [arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, Xavier wrote: That's what provisions are for. Wouln't that require that e.g. tetex and texlive have something like? provides=( "tex" ) In practice, how many packages include such a generic provides entry? From what I've seen most packages' depends rely solely on the package name. I t

Re: [arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-20 Thread Xavier
Neil Darlow wrote: Hi, Seeing the earlier post re. tetex and texlive perhaps there is a case for extending pacman to support alternate dependencies. By this I mean a package could depend on one of a choice of packages. The syntax could be something like: depends=( tetex|texlive ) where th

[arch-general] alternate dependencies?

2008-04-20 Thread Neil Darlow
Hi, Seeing the earlier post re. tetex and texlive perhaps there is a case for extending pacman to support alternate dependencies. By this I mean a package could depend on one of a choice of packages. The syntax could be something like: depends=( tetex|texlive ) where the individual depende