Am Dienstag, dem 15.08.2023 um 14:20 +0200 schrieb Christian Heusel: > Excerpts from Fabian Bornscheins mail at 23/08/11 10:04AM: > > Hey everyone! > > Hey Fabian!
Hey :) > > > Now that I'm back on Arch, I do help people on various platforms, > > such > > as Fedi/Mastodon, Matrix, and Telegram. You can find me using my > > 'fabiscafe' alias. > > I think I have also seen some helpful comments from you on Reddit :) Shh. Nobody would ever connect me to that reddit imposter :o) - But for real I'm not much on reddit these days, thats why I haven't listed that account > > > > In the last 2-3 years, I've been working on another project: FCGU. > > It's an Arch Linux repo for GNOME pre-releases. I started it > > because > > testing GNOME pre-releases on Arch was tough, and the AUR wasn't > > suitable for something as big as GNOME. What began as a personal > > venture grew when others wanted to test it too. I reached out to > > find > > some people who wanted to provide mirrors, and now it's a thing! :) > > The PKGBUILDs are nowadays on Arch gitlab. > > While skimming through the packages a bit I found two things: > > - *rpan-studio*: > (I saw afterwards that you wanted to drop the package[0] anyways > ^^) > - I think you could use `-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None` as per > the cmake packaging guidelines[1] in build() > - Currently fails to build The problem with RPAN-Studio was/is(?) that even after build you might be unable to connect to RPAN. At least last time I worked on the PKGBUILD and managed to make it build, the software itself was not usable for anything. That's why I kept it unchanged. There was a little hope that it is popular enough to find someone else to maintain the PKGBUILD. Now that you mention it, that was 2 years ago and I should probably fill the request - and thanks for this hint. I might push this as last change. :) > > > > So, around 2015/16-ish, I found my way back to Arch, just to jump > > ship > > yet again over to (oh no!) Manjaro. > > > Now I hope the Manjaro stuff doesn't exclude me directly and thanks > > for reading all of this. :) > > Please dont overdo the "Manjaro bad" meme ... While arch sometimes > has > (had) a rocky relationship with its downstream distributions or their > userbase (especially because of the fact that support is limited to > arch > only) there is nothing wrong with using them as long as its fullfills > a > usecase for you. Nahh, it was just some fun. The community is actually pretty nice nowadays and the "Manjaro is Arch"-mentallity slowly fades away, too. > > > > So, in a nutshell, I want to: > > - Offer GNOME unstable releases (beta, rc) in gnome-unstable > > - Assist in transitioning them to Arch once they become stable > > versions > > I think you could be a great addition to the team, so good luck > regarding the further application process! Thanks :) > > cheers, > gromit > > [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rpan-studio#comment-826926 > [1] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines#CMake_can_automatically_override_the_default_compiler_optimization_flag
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