Just to add, I could eventually make the change but doing this is a
destructive and problematic way to do it Muflone, why not leave the
package and allow me to make to choice to how I package my own software?
by doing this your going to start breaking the user space of apps on
users all because you disagree with someone and no one wins here. This
isn't the responsible or mature way to do things.
No app developer is going to want to work in a hostile environment like
this where their own platform will rip the rug from under them for no
good reason, we should have a stable and more positive work environment
here instead of this toxic place where it seems like no one has social
skills ad thinks they need to tell everyone how to do everything or they
get removed..
Corey
On 23/9/25 11:17, Corey Bruce wrote:
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
