Am 06.12.2013 18:20, schrieb Alexander Rødseth:
* Arch Linux has vanilla packages, so we should try to avoid including files that are hand-crafted by packagers
If the files are needed, we include them. It's that simple.
* It clutters the repository
One or two extra files per package is not a problem.
* Including .desktop files is basically the same as patching. And this quote: "Patching only occurs in extremely rare cases, to prevent severe breakage in the instance of version mismatches that may occur within a rolling release model." from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux
That is nonsense. A .desktop file is a simple configuration file. We ship custom default configurations for our packages whenever necessary. More importantly, we should never compromise functionality for ideological or political reasons - for me, that is part of Arch's simplicity. In short, whenever upstream provides a correct .desktop file, we should use it. Otherwise, we should provide our own (exactly like we do with .service files).