Dependency provided by other package is not resolved correctly

[metiulekm]

Imagine you want to install bitwarden-cli-bin and bitwarden-rofi. bitwarden-rofi needs bitwarden-cli, however bitwarden-cli-bin does provide bitwarden-cli, so it should be used instead. However, when one tries to install both at once, rua ignores that and tries to install bitwarden-cli anyway:

> rua install bitwarden-cli-bin bitwarden-rofi
Package bitwarden-rofi depends on bitwarden-cli. Resolving...
Package bitwarden-cli depends on nvm. Resolving...

In order to install all targets, the following pacman packages will need to be installed:
  npm

And the following AUR packages will need to be built and installed:
  nvm
  bitwarden-cli
  bitwarden-cli-bin
  bitwarden-rofi

Proceed? [O]=ok, Ctrl-C=abort.

[vn971]

Acknowledging it as a bug, RUA could definitely be smarter here.

For the moment, you know the work-around, right? (Build the dependency that has the needed provides first, then the rest)

[DanielKruyt]

I'll add another log of this behaviour for the record, in which rua is again being unsmort:

I tried to run

rua install themix-full-git

That package (PKGBUILD) includes in its dependencies themix-gui-git (PKGBUILD) and themix-import-images-git (PKGBUILD). The latter has a dependency on themix-gui which is explicitly provided by the PKGBUILD of themix-gui-git.

The output from rua is as follows:

Package themix-full-git depends on themix-gui-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-import-images-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-export-spotify-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-plugin-base16-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-theme-oomox-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-icons-archdroid-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-icons-gnome-colors-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-icons-numix-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-icons-papirus-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-icons-suru-plus-git. Resolving...
Package themix-full-git depends on themix-icons-suru-plus-aspromauros-git. Resolving...
Package themix-import-images-git depends on themix-gui. Resolving...
Skipping already resolved dependency themix-gui
Need to install packages: ["themix-gui"], but they are not found on AUR.

By first installing themix-gui-git and then installing themix-full-git (both with rua), there were no errors and all installed smoothly.