Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
Ah, alright :)
Thanks alot!
I know this case is closed but in these situations, when a pkg in
[current] or [extra] needs a feature included to support other apps,
uploading a new pkg to the AUR doesn't really help anyone - it's just a
work around. The most efficient and useful action for Arch as a whole
is to pester the developer in question via flyspray (or whatever) to
include the feature that you require.
In most cases, when I have been in similar circumstances, I find that
the devs are already aware of the "lapse" and the pkg sitting in
[testing] has it enabled. Also, uploading new versions of pkgs that can
be found in [current] / [extra], is extremely frowned upon and makes
more work for the TUs. The reason for the frowning is that if someone
adds fooviewer with cool feature A enabled, someone is just as welcome
to add fooviewer with cool feature B enabled, then we get another with A
and B....and then it's a big mess. Therefore we keep all repetition of
[current] / [extra] out of the AUR to avoid these endless permutations.
Just thought I would take the opportunity to clarify that policy.
Phil
/K.
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 14:43 -0700, Judd Vinet wrote:
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:37:23PM +0200, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
There's been a couple of discussion on the forums about the lack of
xfsdump in the arch repos. I've also posted a feature request at
flyspray about it. I'd like to upload the necessary packages to the AUR,
but one of those packages is xfsprogs. xfsprogs is already in current
but it needs to be installed with 'make install install-dev' for the
other packages to compile propoerly. The problem is, should I upload
xfsprogs to the aur, although it's in current? If I don't do that,
there's no point in adding the other four packages. Ideas?
I'll be adding xfsdump to Extra shortly.
- J
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