On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:45:05 +0200 Andreas wrote: > I think many of the java packages that build with maven could > fall into this category... It's a bit of a mess, last time I > checked.
also, pretty much anything golang or javascript, and quite commonly, python - these are not isolated cases anymore - this seems to be a trend that is increasing in popularity; so there should be a consensus on how to handle such packages generally - lukeshu suggests that it doesnt require much discussion; because it is a consequence of the FSDG for the distro to be self-hostable, and other reasons such as GPL CCS compliance On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:45:05 +0200 Andreas wrote: > Instead of simply > removing them from the repositories, we could package a stub, > that is just empty and has an .inistall script > > That way we could more liberally start blacklisting things, > and get immediate feedback from the community. Might even be > able to automate parts of that process. that would surely ease the issue while deflecting any accusations that we are too trigger-happy it does assume though, that most users use pacman in a shell and not a GUI - freemor and i have discussed similar modifications (on IRC), regarding a proposed "pac-rollback" feature, that would need to be implemented in tandem with GUI representations in octopi in order to cover all users _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
