Dependency resolution doesn't take into account the 'Provides' about repoctl HOT 2 OPEN

It seems strange that down -r looks at Provides for "required by" in the first place.

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Hi @inglor thanks for raising the issue. This is a known limitation (to me at least) that I can't seem to find the time to work around.

I don't think down -r is looking at Provides, instead it is looking for a package called initramfs, which is not a real package. Instead there are a bunch of providers for that package.
In the current implementation of repoctl it assumes that all requires are real packages.
But we know that is not the case.

So basically, when repoctl comes across a package that is required but doesn't exist, repoctl should check if there is a package that "provides" this. We can then eliminate the warning, but what should repoctl do at this point? There are going to be multiple providers, and I don't really want to make repoctl ask you interactively which one it should pick.

Here's a possible path forward:

1. Detect if the required package is virtual, then:
2. Do not print a warning if a package that is installed already "Provides" this.
3. Do not print a warning if a package that is to be downloaded already "Provides" this.
4. Otherwise, print a warning message that package does not exist or is virtual.

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