On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:20:15AM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
So the cause must be... A change in user-base? Maybe just an increase in user-base resulting in more people who think Arch should be done their way and not the Arch way?
Well, I think this viewpoint is too elitist... I am not sure that you should blame users who just read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#LCD_filter_patched_pa... and who don't even know that cairo is a dependency of gtk2. (Come on, do you know well every installed library on your system?) And with broken cairo the user just gets "fav_gtk_app: error while loading shared libraries...", so it requires a little bit sophisticated bug-hunting.
Yes, but it's the duty of the AUR-package maintainer to bump the pkgrel version to indicate taht this package (in this case cairo-lcd) needs to be rebuild. And on the other hand it's the user's "duty" to take care of his own built packages, ie to actually rebuild the package. I see nothing elitist therein. It's just a simple usage procedure. --