Re: Why is scribus installing gimp-light-2.6.11?

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On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:29:46 -0500
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/10/2012 02:25 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
> > I can't believe this. You are an Arch user and it never occurred to
> > you that you should go check with a pacman -Ss gimp-light, and then
> > when there is no result, check the AUR? How about a pacman -Si
> > scribus?
> > 
> 
> Believe it.
> 
>   Here, the issue isn't "can't you check", the issue is "why did scribus
> attempt to satisfy a dependency with gimp-light?" That is why I posted the
> question. I had never seen pacman attempt to satisfy and dependency with a
> non-existent or aur package before. But it did. The lack of a gimp-light
> caused pacman to fail to upgrade anything. Thus, the post. The questions
> wasn't "why isn't gimp-light in the repos?" or "Is AUR the only place for
> gimp-light?", the question was "why/how is scribus looking for it in the
> first place?"
> 

It doesn't. Either you have a broken system or a voodoo magician nearby (and
we don't believe in magic). What was the exact error of pacman?

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