On 05.09.2015 20:15, Johannes Löthberg wrote: > On 05/09, Christopher Reimer wrote: >> Unfortunately aurweb is unable to resolve vdr-api back to the actual >> vdr package. >> >> So either it's a bug in aurweb or my construct (vdr-plugin --> vdr-api >> - --> vdr) is way to complex an there's an easier approach. >> > > It has nothing to do with being unable to. aurweb would be fully able > to. It's that that's not how provides work. This behaviour is exactly > like if you eg try doing a `pacman -Si` on the provide. Provides just > provide another name for conflict resolution, and depending on a provide > will likely never link to the package page of some random PKGBUILD that > provides it because many things could provide the same thing and it's > not a real package name. > That makes sense. But I still don't know how to depend on vdr-api with a different pkgver than vdr itself.
As this can happen, as it happened before. Thanks Christopher
