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FS#59235 - [ninja] makedepends on emacs-nox, instead of (more general) emacs

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by William J. Bowman (wilbowma) - Thursday, 05 July 2018, 02:02 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Sunday, 16 April 2023, 08:25 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Anatol Pomozov (anatolik)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When building `ninja` from source, it requires `emacs-nox`, even when `emacs` is already installed.
Instead, it should `makedepends` on `emacs`, which is provided by both `emacs` and `emacs-nox`.

Additional info:
* package version(s): 1.8.2-1


Steps to reproduce:
1. Attempt to build `ninja` with `emacs` installed
2. Dependency listed as `emacs-nox` reports conflict with installed `emacs`; must uninstall `emacs` and install `emacs-nox`, or modify PKGBUILD, to continue
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Sunday, 16 April 2023, 08:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by William J. Bowman (wilbowma) - Saturday, 07 July 2018, 18:38 GMT
After some discussion on IRC, this may not be a bug. I forgot that ABS assumes all packages are built in a fresh chroot, in which case, this issue should never arise. I ran into it by doing non-standard things, so maybe I ought to pay the price of modifying the PKGBUILD.

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