On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:25:41 +0100 Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This was discussed back in 2013 already [1]; we should drop the > remaining LIRC kernel driver shipped with lirc and move it to > [unsupported]. It has been declared dead by upstream in [2]. I am > going to do that when bumping the lirc package to 0.9.2. > > There are two options: > > * Move the lirc package (which contains only the kernel driver) to > [unsupported] and keep the lirc-utils package (which is the official > LIRC project). > > * Rename the lirc-utils package to lirc and upload the lirc driver > package to the AUR under another name. I would suggest wpc87691, as > that is the only kernel module from lirc that is not included in the > kernel yet. This requires a news entry on the front page. > > The first option means that users won't end up with a removed driver > module but we would have to keep using the name lirc-utils for what is > called lirc upstream. The second option means that pacman will > auto-remove the wpc87691 driver and a small group of users will have > to manually reinstall the module from [unsupported]. FWIW, Fedora has > been using the package name lirc for what we have been calling > lirc-utils for a long time and the Fedora package maintainer is the > current upstream maintainer. > > Opinions? > > Regards, > Lukas > > [1] > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-October/025541.html > [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/mailman/message/33235360/
I'm always in favor of dropping third party modules whenever we can. The second option makes more sense to me, but both are sane, so it is your call. B
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