Re: Package Maintainer application

[Amin Vakil]

On 7/28/25 6:31 PM, Martin Rys wrote:

Thanks for the hints, regarding the rm -i, under which circumstances would makepkg propagate the alias?

I tried setting it in the current shell, and the PKGBUILD worked fine for me with makepkg.

Honestly I don't know under which circumstances this would be possible :)

I've checked /etc/profile, /etc/environment, /etc/bash.bashrc and it seems makepkg does not read alias from there, but it's better to put rm -f in all scripts whenever they have to get run noninteractive to be on the safe side IMHO.>

I believe the provides=svp in svp-bin is there as an alias, I can't find the original reasoning as to why I added it, though I don't believe it's necessarily wrong even though a real "svp" package cannot exist, as it is a proprietary application.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#provides

svp package does not exist anymore in AUR, but the reason I'd suggest adding a conflicts to svp-bin was to prevent installing svp and svp-bin concurrently. Packages providing the same item can be installed side-by-side, unless at least one of them uses a conflicts array.

> Tampermonkey is not open source anymore. It’s released under a proprietary license since 2013

That's... unfortunate, looks like I'll have to switch.



On 26/07/2025 11:35, Amin Vakil wrote:

I have indeed mistaken it for a FOSS application, the repo is set up in a very poor way, making it look like the code is still open :/

Hi Martin,



sc-controller:

conflicts=("${pkgname}-git" 'scc')




svp, svp-bin:
Same about provides/conflicts.

jitsi-meet-desktop-bin:




chitubox-free-bin:
Same thing about rm



Best Regards,
Amin Vakil

Regarding your application, I had a couple of notes about some of your PKGBUILDs. There is no necessity to add -git conflicts of package, the -git package should have conflicts/provides with base package. Unless you can use both sc-controller with sc-contoller-git and/or scc package at the same time, can it? From sc-controller-git PKGBUILD it seems they cannot get installed at the same time. It has coreutils as a makedepends which is unnecessary, it's a dep of util-linux which is a dep of fakeroot which is a dep of base-devel. It also uses rm filename in package, I think it brings problem for users which alias rm to rm -i which are many. It should be rm -f IMO. Disclaimer: I'm not a PM, developer, nor ever been, just a curious arch linux user for a couple of years, so feel free to ignore this in case it was wrong.

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