Op 18-03-12 12:53, Simon Sapin schreef: > Le 18/03/2012 12:42, Ike Devolder a écrit : >> i would have weasyprint depend on python-weasyprint >> and have python2-weasyprint provide python-weasyprint > > Right. I didn’t think about the "provide" mechanism. I’ll update the > packages and see how this works. > > > I can’t help but want the two packages to install the same file (both > name and content) and have the file stay as long as at least one of the > packages is installed. That would require pacman to have some kind of > reference counting, but that’s probably too much :) > > I thank that emerge (for Gentoo) special cases python executables. Users > can choose in their config which python versions they want to install, > and which is their "favorite". emerge creates executables with version > suffixes like -2.7, and a symlink without suffix for the "favorite" > version. The symlink is managed by emerge itself, not each package. > > If this kind of conflict in /usr/bin becomes recurrent, should such a > mechanism be considered for pacman?
for this you could file a feature request in the bugtracker [1] with this example so it is clear what you suggest. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=3&do=index&switch=1 > > Regards, -- Ike
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