> A glance at the online Arch package listing and some example .PKGINFO files indicates that Pacman also doesn't support metadata like 'provides' and 'replaces' in DEB and RPM, which means the developers have fewer tools at their disposal for dealing with transitions like that, even when they want to.

I guess this is what you get for making assumptions about a platform you're technically unfamiliar with, isn't it?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#Package_relations