Modifying package dependencies doesn't seem to work for me?

[juliavdkris]

Hi! I've been using paru for years now, and really like it. But if I needed to change a package's dependencies, I've always just resorted to cloning the repo from the AUR myself, editing it and doing a makepkg -si. I recently discovered that paru has a --fm flag for editing files before installing, but I can't quite get it to work.

The package I'm trying to install is podman-desktop, which depends on nodejs-lts-gallium. I want to use the regular nodejs instead, and in my experience that actually works fine. I first tried paru --fm code -S podman-desktop, and changed the PKGBUILD and SRCINFO files. But when I proceed with the installation, it still tries to install nodejs-lts-gallium. I tried adding the --savechanges flag to commit the changes, but even then the same issue occurs.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Any help is much appreciated!