Ignore missing dependencies

Starfall · 2012-03-30 16:33:14

Hello

I have some parts of the gnome suite installed that enable me to use some of their features, however, I have force removed a fair few other aspects of the gnome suite. Whenever I upgrade my system, Pacman prompts that some of my packages are missing dependencies, is there anyway to ignore this or stop Pacman from warning me?

Any help is greatly appreciated

karol · 2012-03-30 16:40:11

* you can rebuild the gnome suite w/o the unwanted dependencies
or
* you can create some dummy pkgs that don't provide any files but pacman thinks that all dependencies are satisfied

Starfall · 2012-03-30 16:45:41

karol wrote:

* you can rebuild the gnome suite w/o the unwanted dependencies
or
* you can create some dummy pkgs that don't provide any files but pacman thinks that all dependencies are satisfied

Thanks karol, how might one go about creating these dummy packages?

karol · 2012-03-30 16:47:52

If you need foo, create a PKGBUILD for that package, but don't install any files e.g. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/du/dummy/PKGBUILD
You might need to fill the 'provides' etc.

Mr.Elendig · 2012-03-30 17:35:02

Don't make dummy packages, recompile gnome with the deps you want instead.

Short story: "if you don't like how the packager did it, do it yourself" and "abs exists for a reason"
-- unknown arch dev

x33a · 2012-03-30 17:38:59

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Don't make dummy packages, recompile gnome with the deps you want instead.
Short story: "if you don't like how the packager did it, do it yourself" and "abs exists for a reason"
-- unknown arch dev

Is there a reason not to make dummy packages? Recompiling whole gnome will have a bigger overhead.

karol · 2012-03-30 17:43:17

Dummy packages are a bit like symlinks:
* they're OK for a quick'n'dirty job, but you shouldn't depend on them in the long term - fix things the right way
* they're tricky to debug, as pacman will see that the packages are installed

Yes, it's your system and you can do whatever you want and however you please.

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#1 2012-03-30 16:33:14

Ignore missing dependencies

#2 2012-03-30 16:40:11

Re: Ignore missing dependencies

#3 2012-03-30 16:45:41

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#5 2012-03-30 17:35:02

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