On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 17:10:12 -0500 bill-auger wrote: > IMHO, the not "built from > source" is the most worrisome - that often indicates that something non-free > was required for the build
i realized that may be confusing for those unfamiliar with parabola - parabola's dotnet is taken directly from arch - it was possible to disable the telemetry feature without re-building, by setting an environment variable; so that is still the case arch prefers to built everything from source if possible - there is usually a fundamental reason why some package is not built from source, that could be because it is not possible