Thanks for the clarification. I was suspecting this, but it's good to have it spelled out.
/K. On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 01:17 +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > 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 > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>arch mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > >> > >> > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________ > >To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! > >Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >arch mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
