Have you looked at netctl's optional dependencies?
Of course I have but the question is - what is the point of providing a
binary that doesn't work at all without some optdepends?
Optdepends are used for software like lighttpd or apache where some
optional modules may need these optdepends.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:10:39PM +0100, Nowaker wrote:
Guys, the goal of this slanted ranting (really?) is to propose a
good solution and make Arch better.
Please refrain from implying that the current state needs being made better in
the first place. This is exactly what we're trying to
Thanks Dennis for your input.
To sum up, in your opinion the proposed approach is clean in terms of
Arch guidelines. You also consider decoupling packages a good thing in
general *provided* there is a sound reason for that. There isn't in your
opinion.
What is important is that I brushed
Hey,
Why does netctl provide /usr/bin/wifi-menu which is unusable at all,
given the fact it needs /usr/bin/dialog to operate, and this is not a
hard dependency of the package?
I don't really get a point of providing a binary/script that doesn't
work at all. What is it in the package for?
Yeah, I agree on this. It should be a dependency of netctl, or wifi-menu be
a separate package with dialog as a dependency.
Just my two cents.
Wifi-menu as a separate package makes the most sense, avoids the issue of
some netctl users not wanting wifi-menu, being able to configure their
networks themselves or using something else to search for wifi networks.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Daniel Leining dan...@the-beach.co wrote:
This would be great. It's always annoyed me that it's sitting there
unusable.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Toyam Cox csupercomputerg...@gmail.comwrote:
Wifi-menu as a separate package makes the most sense, avoids the issue of
some netctl users not wanting wifi-menu, being able to
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:34PM -0600, Garrett Hopper wrote:
This would be great. It's always annoyed me that it's sitting there
unusable.
I don't usually play this card, but netcl takes up 7 kilobytes of disk
space---an infinitesimal amount relative to many core *NIX utils---and only runs
Nowaker enwukaer at gmail.com writes:
Hey,
Why does netctl provide /usr/bin/wifi-menu which is unusable at all,
given the fact it needs /usr/bin/dialog to operate, and this is not a
hard dependency of the package?
I don't really get a point of providing a binary/script that doesn't
To: arch-general@archlinux.org
From: 31337h4c...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:44:20 +
Subject: Re: [arch-general] netctl provides wifi-menu which is unusable
Nowaker enwukaer at gmail.com writes:
Hey,
Why does netctl provide /usr/bin
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