On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:33:26 +0200, Det via aur-general wrote: >>Since the maintainer is throwing his tantrum, I decided it would be >>good to ask the mailing list directly, should "pepper-flash" [1] be >>renamed to e.g. "flashplugin-ppapi"? > > People who still want to contribute on the bad thing that websites > requiring flash won't die out most likely would search for a > "pepperflash" PKGBUILD, since "pepperflash" is the well known name for > it. So yes, please rename it, perhaps some never heard about "PPAPI" > and "NPAPI", don't understand what "flashplugin-ppapi" does provide, > don't install it and the chance that we are in at the death of the last > website requiring flashplayer does increase, because less people are > willing or able to install flashplayer. > > IMO it would be better to drop all flashplayer related packages from > AUR, as well as from the official repositories. > > :p > Ralf
IMO people still need flash to do stuff so I do not know why you would remove it. While most of us still may hate flash they have decided to support it again: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/09/adobe-announced-will-restart-support-flash-linux
