On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:10:11 -0500, bill-auger wrote:
oh my - did i just give advice on how to distribute proprietary software? - please, no one tell the Great Gnu - /me is so embarrassed :)
Not necessarily. Sometimes GNU software is available as bin, too. Building software such as Icecat from source could takes hours on some machines. Upstream URL http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ ;). https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat-bin/ By providing FLOSS software as bin, it also could be easier to work around dependency issues. However, I'm not against proprietary software. I'm using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocz-ssd-utility/ to get useful SMART output, since the output of smartctl is useless for my SSDs, let alone that I could update the firmware and other useful features are provided by this proprietary software. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocz-ssd-utility/ Not only useful, but really needed for my machine: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/intel-ucode