Well, they are there, they are linked from the makepkg tutorial on the wiki and are in the Arch install guidelines - if people can't search the wiki or read guidelines then what can "we" do? I agree they could be a _bit_ more easy to find but anyone that has read the makepkg tutorial, as everyone _should_ have, should be aware of them. The problem, as I have stated before, is that people are simply looking at other peoples PKGBUILDs and not reading the tutorials at all and assuming that is ok. I have official been a TU for approximately 1 month, before which I was a "normal". I have been making PKGs for some time and I never had any problem finding and reading the guidelines.
As far as I am concerned _all_ users of Arch Linux have a responsibility to propagate the standards that the Arch community expects, whether spoken or unspoken, in line with the best interests of the community. Crap PKGBUILDs are crap for everyone, it's as simple as that. Anyone can speak up against people distributing poor quality or even illegal material but only a few actually do. Rather than point out that other people aren't doing enough why not lend a hand and do something yourself? I'm trying to get the packing guidelines rewritten and in a separate document and I am also working on a document for AUR users - I'd appreciate any help and suggestions. Phil > -----Original Message----- > From: Hugo Ideler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 July 2005 11:13 > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch] License field in PKGBUILDs > > You can't blame the users for using the field. The presence of the > 'license' field in PKBUILD.proto from abs suggests it has to be filled > in. It totally makes no sense to have this field if you're not supposed > to fill it in. > > And therefore I consistently started using in license="GPL" in most of > my PKGBUILDS. Nowhere did it say I was doing something against 'the > rules'. > > As a user I've yet to see any form of packaging guidelines. If you want > users to follow this stuff, start making it easy for them... > > Best regards, > > > Hugo > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
