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@karl_gerh - yeah. tested it. the dkms-sorted maintainer needs to change conflicts to replaces for dkms in his PKGBUILD. so actually, dkms-sorted doesn;t play nicely with uvesafb-dkms, or any other package with a dkms dependency for that matter. ;-)

@karl_gerh - dkms-sorted both provides and conflicts with dkms from the official repositories. honestly, i don;t see any way around this. i have to provide support for the official version. i'll look into it and see if i have any options here, but so far i'm not seeing any syntax for an OR operation under depends (e.g. dkms OR dkms-sorted). i have to depend on dkms and dkms-sorted is supposed to provide dkms. the answer may be that the dkms-sorted maintainer should change his package so that instead of conflicting with dkms, it just replaces dkms.

replaces=('dkms') vs. conflicts=('dkms')

you can try this out yourself by downloaded the dkms-sorted snapshot, modify the PKGBUILD, substituting conflicts with replaces, build a new copy of dkms-sorted, install it and try it out.

Hello,

uvesafb-dkms doesn't seem to play along nicely with dkms-sorted (which I use for zfs). Is there a way to make this work?

:: Building uvesafb-dkms package(s)... ==> Making package: uvesafb-dkms 1.0.0-2 (Sam Mär 31 20:37:42 CEST 2018) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... :: dkms and dkms-sorted are in conflict. Remove dkms-sorted? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: dkms and dkms-sorted are in conflict ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. :: failed to build uvesafb-dkms package(s)