On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 18:11 +0100, Xavier wrote:
Why doesn't Arch ship that package ? It's a single 6 lines file, it cannot hurt anything. I just realized arch patches libdrm to not require it : http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libdrm/repos/extra-i686/no-pthread-... But official libdrm still requires it, and that's also what we get if we just clone libdrm git repo (usually needed if you also build git versions of ddx and mesa).
The dependency is killed because it's useless. It's easy to kill, so we do it. If you like to install the package because you want to build stuff from git without killing the dependency from your sources, you're free to install it on your system.
Well ok, that's fine...
I don't see point in maintaining a package with just a 6-line .pc file. That's also the reason why we don't maintain this package in extra or any other binary repository, it's useless.
...but I don't buy this argument, there isn't any maintenance and cost involved compared to any other packages. And I feel up to the task, it will take 1 minute of my life, but also save a few minutes of my life for the few times I will have to install the aur package on a new system :) Compared to the many hours I spend talking about random useless stuff, I agree it's not much. I just disagree with the principle "let's kill 6 lines just because we can" but it won't change my life much, so no big deal ! I already forgot about it.