On 12/10/18 12:06 am, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
The fundamental purpose of AppImage is to offer standalone software that does not integrate with the package manager, in return for not depending on the package manager. What is the point of packaging one into a pacman package? If people wanted appimages they would download them and run them as intended... not by extracting the contents and incompletely copying them to /usr
The advantages I see of packaging an AppImage are: * Automatic updates * GUI integration (eg appname.desktop file and icon) * Easy access to man pages, help docs and changelog * Easy access to files (eg skeleton config files) specified in the help docs
Programs which build using private libraries belong in /opt either way, definitively not in /usr/lib.
Cheers, I'll symlink to there. -- Tom Hale
