On March 19, 2026 8:47:02 PM MDT, Polarian <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey,
>
>Let me put it more clearly then, Muflone is the main staff member who
>moderates the AUR, I can assure you they know the rules inside out.
>
>They have already explained their reasoning for the change. [1]
>
>There is literally nothing to discuss here, other than "I disagree with
>the change". If you have an issue with it you should probably bring it
>up with Muflone, not subject an entire mailing list to your personal
>preferences.
>
As another staff member who moderates the AUR (though not as often as Fabio),
discussion of changes is fair game for this mailing list.
>
>In any case, this is not a hill worth dying on. You have an extra
>step which is clearly documented [2]. If you want to take your anger
>out on someone, maybe take it out on Black Magic Design which forced
>this change, Muflone has already concluded this a year ago [3], you are
>blaming the wrong person here. There is no stable URL to download the
>sources from and forcing people to run ambiguous scripts is a security
>threat, malicious PKGBUILD's have happened before, therefore you
>must always review what you are building which, as Muflone has pointed
>out, can not be done if there is a hacky workaround which is not
>possible for the average user to review.
>
You're coming at this from a much more aggressive position than the OP. There's
no indication that OP intends to die on this hill—they simply want to discuss
the change and whether it could potentially be revisited. I don't see anything
wrong with that given the way they've presented their arguments. The worst we
can say is that we won't change it back.
>
>I am aware that davinci is much more advanced than a lot of the open
>source competition but if it is such a big deal, maybe give some open
>source alternatives a go, ones which actually give you both software
>freedom, and can be properly packaged and distributed, without upstream
>causing any issues, unlike resolve.
>
A fair point, but as you've admitted, Resolve is much more advanced than the
likes of Shotcut, Kdenlive, etc. If you want a professional video editor the
likes of Premiere or Sony Vegas on Linux, you need Resolve. That's not to knock
the FOSS competition in any way, it's just reality.
>
>Thank you,
Polarian, I'd like to remind you—as I know others have in the past—you are not
an AUR moderator. You've engaged in what's called "armchair moderation" here,
where someone with no power to enforce rules attempts to do so anyway. If
you're going to engage in this discussion—and you should feel free to do
so—please do so constructively and without speaking for the Arch staff members
that are fully capable of speaking for themselves.
Thank you,
Campbell Jones / serebit
