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barebones

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 235

Multiple entries under REQUIREDBY in the pacman database

I've been playing around with some code to show how all the dependencies look on my computer and I've noticed that for some packages, in the pacman database, they have multiple entries under REQUIREDBY in the depends file. For example, my depends file for curl looks like this:

%DEPENDS%
zlib
openssl
bash

%REQUIREDBY%
vorbis-tools
linkage-svn
linkage-svn
linkage-svn
linkage-svn
linkage-svn
openoffice-base
gnupg

linkage-svn is listed 5 times, is something like this normal? If i delete four of the entries, will I ruin anything? I should mention that linkage-svn is a package from the aur that I update pretty frequently, so that could be the reason for it, but I've also noticed this for other non-aur packages. Audiofile had three entries for esd in it's depends file.

Thanks!

wain

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From: France

Registered: 2005-05-01

Posts: 289

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Re: Multiple entries under REQUIREDBY in the pacman database

What do you use to automatically install package from AUR ? 

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barebones

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 235

Re: Multiple entries under REQUIREDBY in the pacman database

I don't use anything to automatically install packages from aur. I build them using makepkg (or in this case versionpkg) and install them using pacman -U.