How is this invalid? there is no reason this should be removed and this
package isn't breaking any rules or causing any harm, by removing
libelectron-electron-meta people wont be able to launch their apps as
they will be missing electron and I would have to go go through and
update all my packages just to fix this while getting complains that the
apps stopped working when there is again no reason to remove this package
No that wouldn't make it useless at all, it's used to define a electron
version and ensure stability and control of my packages, if anything
does go wrong I can easily update the meta package to upgrade or
downgrade and easily update all my packages electron version with the
meta package, while using depends=electron-* is good and fine if
anything goes wrong I will have to go through every package to manually
fix an issue
That's like saying why does Linux-meta exist, when this is for the exact
same reason.
I have given valid reasons, but you are not listening, just saying "they
aren't valid" when there is no reason to even touch the package in the
first place just shows you don't want to have actual discussion but to
have it your way or the highway and be here to be the arbitrator of
power where there is no need to be or reason.
You even admitted that it will be broken if you remove it when you said
earlier "so there wouldn't be any breakage," again why even touch my
package when you can't even give a valid reason to even delete it when
it's not breaking any rules and cuaing any issues. IT exists for more
fine quality control.
Corey Bruce
On 23/9/25 06:13, Muflone wrote:
Hi again
1. removing it would cause a lot of breakage and issues not just for
me but for all the people using my package and I feel like this was a
nuclear out of nowhere solution instead of just contacting me and
making suggesting instead of threating to have my package removed and
should have been handled way better then this.
The 100% of the packages requiring libelectron-electron-meta are
maintained by yourself so there wouldn't be any breakage, you should
simply switch to the correct matching electron version. This
dependency was added by you forcefully, it's not a strict requirements
the application have.
Reason 1 is invalid
2. I am one developer and this easily helps me maintain and control
the electron versioning for all my software as I now use the repo
packages of electron and the AUR if the package doesn't yet exist and
if anything goes wrong or a update with electron causes any issues I
can easily revert the version of just libelectron-electron-meta and
fix the issues for all my packages instead of painstakingly go
through each and every package and not have control of what version
of electron my software uses
This reasons simply defines you use libelectron-electron-meta to
eventually change the needed electron version without updating the
packages, so at the actual state such package is 100% useless and you
hope to use it the day the electron version would change, instead of
updating your packages.
To me this reason 2 is 100% invalid to keep the current
libelectron-electron-meta package in the AUR.
Please provide valid reasons to keep this package, if they exist, or
change your packages dependencies to use the correct electron version
(like all the electron packages - including the official one - do),
drop the libelectron-electron-meta dependency or they will become
broken when the libelectron-electron-meta package will be removed.
Best regards
