On 06/19/2011 07:56 PM, Uli Armbruster wrote:
Hi guys
Since the PKGBUILD of mkvtoolnix now has the additional option --disable-gui, I
want to create a package in the AUR which provides this gui, which is called
mmg (MkvMergeGui).
Right now I have it up here https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49992 but
I'm not sure about some things:
- Is it good or bad to only provide mmg (and its manpage, desktop file and icons
of course) in the package and add mkvtoolnix as a dependency, because mmg depends
on mkvmerge (which is in mkvtoolnix)? You see in the comments, that others want me
to make a package, which provides all the mkvtoolnix package contains PLUS mmg
=> they want a package which is exactly like that one which has been in the
repos until recently.
In my opinion it makes more sense to make this package
depending on mkvtoolnix, for some reasons:
- People don't have to compile everything, the build process is
faster and packages depending on mkvtoolnix remain dependent on an official
package, which is always recommended in my opinion.
- It's possible to install the gui for mkvmerge AND / OR the
gui for mkvinfo (which I want to upload to the AUR as well later today or
tomorrow). If I provide everything in that package, that's not possible, except
of course if I create 3 packages, one which includes the one gui, one which
includes the other gui and one which includes both guis (the fourth
possibility, no gui, is already in the repos). So the way I want to do it makes
more sense, right?
- I'm struggling with the naming of the package. Right now I called it
mkvtoolnix-gtk, because for some reason I thought, that in mkvtoolnix's source
there's one gtk gui for mkvmerge and a qt gui for mkvmerge. But that's wrong,
there's the gtk gui for mkvmerge and a qt gui for mkvinfo. So right now I'd
say, I name mkvmerge's gui mkvmerge-gui or mmg and mkvinfo's gui mkvinfo-gui or
whatever the executable is called. I think that makes more sense. Do you agree?
Cheers
Army
I'd go for an mmg-only package. Don't duplicate repo packages unless
absolutely necessary.
Either "mmg" or "mkvmerge-gui" would be fine. I think I prefer "mmg"
because it's shorter.
The mkvinfo gui should go in a different package, of course.
On the other hand:
> I'd like to make the package(s) as good as possible for all Arch
> users, not just for me. So if my approach makes no sense to you guys,
> I'll bow to the majority and change it (or let someone else take care
> of it ;D )
Do as you like, if others find your package useful, fine, if not, they
can roll their own. ;)
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