On Sun 23 Jan 2011 11:53 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 01/22/2011 08:35 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > >On Sat 22 Jan 2011 19:03 +0100, Ronald van Haren wrote: > >>Seriously? Since when is adding a package that is already in the repos > >>with a different configure flag a good idea? We don't even allow this > >>in the AUR... > > > >Seriously. While it's not ideal, it has been done. > >I would consider it the same as including bin/lib32 packages just to > >include things like wine or whatever. The [community] repo is intended > >for this kind of experimentation and freedom. > > > >I think awesomewm has enough of a user base to justify such measures if > >a TU is willing to maintain it. > > While are you at this add firefox/thunderbird cairo system support. It has > enough user base and a lot of complains about fonts that are not consistent > with system, doesn't matter if firefox/tb is broken. > > We can do this </sarcasm>
Sure, why not? This doesn't compare with awesome though, which doesn't exist in the repos, and actually requires cairo-xcb. Firefox is available in the repos and your font issues can likely be worked around. At least I have no problems with fonts there. > >I'm starting to get a bit peeved with people confusing [community] and > >[unsupported] with the [core] and [extra] bits.
