FS#48914 - Asking to install two conflicting packages will still install the dependencies of both

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Link Mauve (linkmauve) - Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 18:04 GMT
Last edited by Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory) - Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 19:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.0.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
During the “looking for conflicting packages...” step, conflicting packages are removed, but not their dependencies, which leads to unneeded packages to be installed on the system.

Steps to Reproduce:
- % pacman -S midori midori-gtk2
- If they weren’t present before, both webkitgtk and webkitgtk2 will be installed, despite only midori-gtk2 being selected
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Closed by  Andrew Gregory (andrewgregory)
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 19:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  FS#41712

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