I see, thanks a lot for enlightening me on that front. I wasn't aware of that nomenclature and might have submitted this package too quickly at first.
I've seen that the removal request went through and will be re-creating it according to the proper naming scheme. Have a nice day, Orax On Tue, 20 Jun 2023, at 23:44, Marcell Meszaros wrote: > @Orax, > > You can create a package for release candidate (rc) versions if you > would like to. Suggested names e.g.: > > prusa-slicer-rc-bin > -or- > prusa-slicer-preview-bin > > In package description, you can add "(preview version)" or "(release > candidate)". > > It could provide either the latest stable or the latest preview / > release candidate, whichever is newer. > > That package would not be considered a duplicate variant of the repo > package. It is valid and allowed on AUR to have > devel/alpha/beta/preview/rc whatever packages. > > On 20 June 2023 09:44:46 GMT+02:00, JP Roemer <j...@roemer.im> wrote: >>As the current maintainer of this aur package, I would like to note that >>prusa-slicer-bin do provide some value over >>https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/prusa-slicer/ as it includes >>pre-release binaries (as specified in its description). >> >>Those pre-release / release candidate version do use the same configuration >>folder as final release one (which alpha & beta version do not) and are >>considered mostly safe to use with just some cutting edge new features >>available. >> >>The value of this package is to be able to install and tests pre-release >>versions which are not shipped as part of extra/prusa-slicer. >> >>If this is something that is not welcomed in the aur, I understand and this >>package can be removed. I just felt like the specific way configuration are >>handled by this package warranted the existence of a package that included >>stable and release-candidate versions. >> >>Best, >>Orax >> >>On Mon, 19 Jun 2023, at 12:20, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >>> MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for prusa-slicer-bin [2]: >>> >>> Not needed anymore, same is in [extra]: >>> >>> https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/prusa-slicer/ >>> >>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ >>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/prusa-slicer-bin/
