On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:12 PM, buckket <[email protected]> wrote: > As there some programs out there which use redo’s .do files in their > building process it’s important that they can specify redo, or any of > the existing implementations in their makedepends. But as far as I know > there is no way to specify either package A OR B as a dependency for > package C, so I came to the conclusion that using such a virtual package > would make perfect sense and is the only valid option here.
Look at man PKGBUILD's provides=() entry. That makes a package provide a basic functionality, in your case redo, in a particular form, eg. redo-git. It is also a good idea to use conflicts=() to prevent packages from providing the same thing from being installed. cheers! mar77i
