On 7/15/19 4:35 PM, Shorrer via arch-general wrote:
'bmenu' is that thing like shown here? https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=28824.msg246141#msg246141 If that's so then I think I've found it.
First, I don't know how things are working in Manjaro, but it seems like you guys are using our AUR so you should be familiar with the thing or you at the very least heard about it. If not and if you're interested in how it works then here is some quick'n'dirty explanation: it is community-provided repository of stuff that is required to create an installable pacman package. "Stuff" is mostly a PKGBUILD script that 'makepkg' can use to create a package (you can learn more at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository)
So, let's get back to 'bmenu'. Seems like we had this package in AUR but it was removed. Except it actually wasn't and you can still get all the data required to create it. However, this might not work. After all, the AUR page was taken down for some reason...
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2019-January/029452.html The bmenu package maintainer was also the upstream developer of the Github repository. Per that individual's request, the package was deleted... Looking at the PKGBUILD raises a few eyebrows. Why does it pull from some branch on git -- oh right, developer makes new versions but they aren't tagged, just pushed to the "aur" branch... what??? As with most things created by Manjaro users, I'm a lot more disturbed by the script than I am by the PKGBUILD. Try counting the number of times the "bmenu" script will fall back to running "sudo pacman -Sy ranger && ranger". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User