Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-25 Thread Thiago Barroso Perrotta
Hello, Yeah, android-udev would be useful in [community]. And what do you think about moving android-sdk too? I personally also find more useful to get updates about Android tools from it rather than using any package managers or aur pkgbuilds. /opt could still be its install location. All the

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-23 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
Hello On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 17.04.2014 08:53, schrieb Daniel Micay: >> I think it's best to just install it to your home directory without >> involving the system package manager if you want to use the android >> package manager for anything. > > So y

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-23 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi, As there is no strong consensus on what to do with Android development tools then I am going to leave the situation as-is. Arch users will keep either installing the packages using Android installer or by AUR packages. I am going to move packages android-tool and android-udev to [community].

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread arnaud gaboury
Please have a look here[1]. It is a Arch based distro developed by Android dev. You can add the repo in your /etc/pacman.conf [1]http://bbqlinux.org/

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2014-04-18 01:20, Karol Babioch wrote: > ...snip... > Personally I like this approach the most. Obviously it has drawbacks in > multi-user environments. But it won't lead to conflicts, because pacman > doesn't know anything about it and to be quite honest most of us are the > only user on a syst

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 18.04.2014 00:35, schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: >> Does this download additional files, or actually replace files the arch >> package installs? >> >> If it's the former, then you can create a user group (eg: android), >> and make the directory where files are downloaded owned by that grou

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Looks like my message was silently dropped by mailman. Lemme retry this: On 2014-04-16 20:49, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > First of all, thanks for all the efort you're putting into moving these > arch tools into the official repos. I've been wanting to see this (and > non-bin packages) for ages!

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 17.04.2014 23:29, schrieb Daniel Micay: > I would just install > the SDK to my home directory and use a meta-package (no contents) to > handle the external dependencies. Yes, that would probably make sense. Maybe such a package could be uploaded to the AUR. I've installed it to my home di

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread Daniel Micay
On 17/04/14 05:22 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 17.04.2014 08:53, schrieb Daniel Micay: >> I think it's best to just install it to your home directory without >> involving the system package manager if you want to use the android >> package manager for anything. > > So you are managing al

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-17 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 17.04.2014 08:53, schrieb Daniel Micay: > I think it's best to just install it to your home directory without > involving the system package manager if you want to use the android > package manager for anything. So you are managing all of this alone and don't use the packages in AUR at all

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-16 Thread Daniel Micay
On 17/04/14 02:20 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 17.04.2014 04:22, schrieb GSC: >> You can just chown /opt/android-sdk and it will be easier to install api. > > Yeah, although I don't like the idea to "mess" around in /opt. Maybe it > would be possible to introduce an "android" group, so i

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-16 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 17.04.2014 04:22, schrieb GSC: > You can just chown /opt/android-sdk and it will be easier to install api. Yeah, although I don't like the idea to "mess" around in /opt. Maybe it would be possible to introduce an "android" group, so it would be sufficient to add my user to this group? > e

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-16 Thread GSC
On 04/17/2014 06:50 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: Hi, Am 17.04.2014 00:38, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: Are there people with Android development background? What exactly do you miss in Arch? The problem I face with the Android situation in Arch is that currently there seems to be no "clean" (TM) way to

Re: [arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-16 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 17.04.2014 00:38, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: > Are there people with Android development background? What exactly do > you miss in Arch? The problem I face with the Android situation in Arch is that currently there seems to be no "clean" (TM) way to install the SDK and related stuff. The and

[arch-general] Android support in Linux Arch

2014-04-16 Thread Anatol Pomozov
In my TU application I promised to look at situation with Android support in Arch. Android is an open-source project that has a number of sub-projects. The official website offers prebuild binaries for those sub-projects such as sdk, ndk, build-tools, IDE plugins,... We want to simplify Android in