Mpv-build-git use different reppsitory and build method. I've send new thread to unmerge mpv-build-git
Greetings El 07/09/2013 19:31, "Maxime Gauduin" <[email protected]> escribió: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm admittedly having trouble understanding the use of such a package > > (over simply using -git libs, which, despite what you claim, seldom > > break existing package — and if they do, well, stop using -git > > packages in the first place). Is it useful to so many people that it > > has to be on the AUR? The package had little activity at all. > > Should we start having this type of packages for a bunch more apps? > > > > Anyway, regardless of all that, "mpv-player-git" is a terrible name for > it. > > J. Leclanche > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Rob Til Freedmen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Merging those packages doesn't make sense at all! > > > > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-git/ > > > This package uses dynamically linked system libs > > > > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-player-git/ > > > This package uses statically linked libs from git > > > It has also lots of comments to guide users in building & > experimenting. > > > > > > If you're really want to take choice from users, > > > this would be a better package for merging with mpv-player-git > > > > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mpv-build-git/ > > > > People using git packages should expect and know how to deal with breakage. > Packages like mpv-player-git or mpv-build-git do not belong in AUR, they > belong to the 'extremely specialized' category mentioned on [1]. Your > argument about 'taking choices from users' does not stand, 3 votes iirc > means only 2 people apart from you used it, same with mpv-build-git which > has 2 votes. There are but a few people who may want statically linked > libs, and people who know they need this should be smart enough to write > their own PKGBUILD locally, there's no point in guiding them. I'll be > deleting mpv-build-git too, and btw, those are terrible names indeed. > > Cheers, > > [1] > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Sharing_and_maintaining_packages > > -- > Maxime >
