On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace@gatech.edu> wrote:
this is the email I just got On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:55:16PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
i really dont think removing a pkgbuild just because they are similar is a good idea, given that we have tons of similar PKGBUILD. if we do this, please do the same thing for these families: 1. chromium 2. vlc 3. mplayer 4. ... you will see that aur is supposed to be free. anyone should be able to upload pkgbuild.
I know I have no standing in AUR decision-making, but I find the uploader's 'logic' un-understandable. If his package is not necessary and changes nothing besides adding a dependency which already has 'provides=', how can he compare it with compile-flag-varying packages?