[Dev] [RFC] Voting about package naming for packages modified from Arch

Luke Shumaker lukeshu at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 29 16:14:04 GMT 2014


At Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:29:41 +0200,
Daniel Milewski wrote:
> I'm also a bit annoyed by the fact I have to guess if the package was
> renamed in Parabola whenever I install software through pacman.

You actually don't when installing--because the package
provides=(original_name), `pacman -S original_name` does the right
thing.  However, it is then annoying to guess the rename when
un-installing.

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Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker



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