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FS#35848 - PKGBUILD Doesn't list kdebase as a %PROVIDES%

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Luke McDaniel (lukemcdaniel) - Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 01:22 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 02:46 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I'm trying to install some ... less than new aur PKGBUILDS for kde styles, colors, themese, etc...
They all require kdebase. If you installed kde with kde-meta, it has kdebase listed in conflicts and replaces, but doesn't list that it provides it so all those PKGBUILDS break.

I know that it's mostly their fault for not paying attention when they setup their depends, and should really be depending on kdelibs or something, but it's a simple fix, and shouldn't cause any harm to add it to the main package for kde-meta-kdebase...

I've done a temporary edit of my desc in /var/lib/pacman/... which allowed them to be installed, but that will go away on the next update, and will not help anyone else...
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 02:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  AUR package issue
Comment by KaiSforza (KaiSforza) - Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 01:46 GMT
> I've done a temporary edit of my desc in /var/lib/pacman/... which allowed them to be installed, but that will go away on the next update, and will not help anyone else...

This is very much NOT the way to do things. Edit the PKGBUILDs and post a comment about this in the respective AUR pages.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 01:59 GMT
Fix the AUR packages.
Comment by Luke McDaniel (lukemcdaniel) - Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 02:40 GMT
They are spread amongst several maintainers, and I haven't the time. Doesn't that technically provide kdebase anyway? Why make changes to all of those, when one small change can be made to a single file.

It already shows that it conflicts with kdebase, so it's not like it would cause problems from trying to install both simultaneously.

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