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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

UZBL wants to remove dmenu-vertical-xft and replace with dmenu

Thinking that UZBL may have a PKGBUILD that asks for dmenu.   
uzbl-tabbed and uzbl-browser that is.
uzbl-core installed fine after removing uzbl-git.

Currentlyusing dmenu-vertical-xft

all good   all fun!

pacman -S uzbl-tabbed
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: dmenu conflicts with dmenu-vertical-xft. Remove dmenu-vertical-xft? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: dmenu: conflicts with dmenu-vertical-xft

Last edited by yvonney (2010-04-10 01:17:38)

esodax

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-08-10

Posts: 24

Re: UZBL wants to remove dmenu-vertical-xft and replace with dmenu

In the PKGBUILD for dmenu-vertical-xft. Change provides to "provides=('dmenu=4.0')" and rebuild/install.
That should fix it.

yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: UZBL wants to remove dmenu-vertical-xft and replace with dmenu

most iteresting new tip for me. thank you.
so, the PKGBUILD first half of it is below and I'll change the last line or two? to:
conflicts=('dmenu')
"provides=('dmenu=4.0')"

um, what about conflicts.... leave it as is I think. makes sense.
Actually seem quick a brilliant way, change it slightly like that.
And of course a lot more I won't yet understand.
in any event, great!

-------- PKGBUILD FIRST PART BELOW

pkgname=dmenu-vertical-xft
pkgver=4.0
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="Dynamic X menu with zenix's vertical patch and xft support"
url="http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('MIT')
depends=('libxinerama' 'libxft')
makedepends=('xineramaproto')
conflicts=('dmenu')
provides=('dmenu')

Last edited by yvonney (2010-04-10 06:56:23)

esodax

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-08-10

Posts: 24

Re: UZBL wants to remove dmenu-vertical-xft and replace with dmenu

Just replace the provides=('dmenu') line to: provides=('dmenu=4.0')
uzbl-browser depends on dmenu>=4.0, thats why we have to be specific about the provided dmenu version.
Thanks.

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: UZBL wants to remove dmenu-vertical-xft and replace with dmenu

this is clearly a bug in the uzbl pkgbuild. report it. uzbl works with dmenu <4.0 just fine.

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