On 1/6/20 10:01 AM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > > Often when packages are removed from repos they become virtual provides. > > While those are great for a transition period , they are not meant to be > used forever. > > > Unfortunately they do stay around for a very long time. > > > example : > > Around mesa 10.3.0-1 from august 2014[1] ati-dri, intel-dri, > nouveau-dri and svga-dri were replaced by mesa-dri . > > In mesa 10.4.0-1 from december 2014 mesa-dri was integrated in mesa. > > we're now 5 years further and mesa still provides & conflicts ati-dri, > intel-dri, nouveau-dri, svga-dri and mesa-dri. > > > I have wanted to file a bug to get them removed for some time, but don't > know if there are packages that still use them that would break if they > are removed. > >> $ pacman -Ss ati-dri >> extra/mesa 19.3.1-1 >> An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification >> multilib/lib32-mesa 19.3.1-1 >> An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification (32-bit) >> $ > > Is that output proof enough that ati-dri is not used by anything else > then mesa & lib32-mesa or is there a better way to determine which > packages depend on a specific virtual package ? > > Lone_Wolf > > > [1] > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mesa&id=f5ea4245b126d684bc71712bce482cbe575db3eb > > > [2] > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mesa&id=90c5431e1e466ee583de100d0388f72649e75ee1 On https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mesa/ under "Required By (191)", none of these provides are in use, compare to the third package: "bumblebee (requires mesa-libgl)" or further down, see "abuse (requires mesa-libgl) (make)" So it seems nothing depends on *-dri, not even for make/check depends. There's even only one AUR package which uses one of them: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-opentegra-git/ -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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