Em, yes, that's exactly what I did before, but I'm much too tired after having to identify which lines are installing the main content and which are not and remove them correctly, every time I got an update. (I'm a little bit paranoid that I don't want to ignore any package update. Also by doing so I'll possibly miss aur upstream changes such as added/removed dependencies or fixed bugs in those extra files.) So I decided to create these packages. I've read the rules of submission section beforehand, and here are my reasons for submission: - Such way of leaving /opt/ out of pacman (and other extra files in /usr/ managed) is a preference I believe a number of people will find useful. Leaving /opt/ out of pacman can be useful because Android SDK and Android Studio has their internal update mechanism that can do patched/resumable upgrade which is important for people with lowspeed/unstable access to Google; Using a package to keep the dependency on other packages (ncurses, swt, etc) and system configuation files (profile scripts, systemd units, pixmaps and desktop files) are also desirable and recommended because a lot of the files reside in /usr/. - Manually doing such work upon every installation of each of these packages is a tedious process because one has to be at least familiar with bash scripting to identify exactly the part for installing the main content, and even so it takes a lot of time everytime. - These changes cannot be incorporated into the original packages because there are other people who have the broadband connection and prefer to manage all their files by pacman; it is not a duplicate. Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>于2016年4月9日周六 下午5:31写道：
On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:08:44 +0200, 张海 wrote:
Emm... Because I don't want to download those large source files when building, and I don't want to add additional lines to my pacman.conf. Anyway I think this should have the same reason as the fake packages in aur; they give users a shortcut for achieving what they feel better.
Btw. I'm not sure if it's possible to add a directory instead of a file to "NoExtract", OTOH after downloading the PKGBUILD a user who doesn't want to install everything, easily could edit the package build, either before running makepkg or e.g. continuing with yaourt.
Maybe your "dummy" offends https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines.
Regards, Ralf
PS: That reminds me that I still need to replace a long comment by a link and that I again need to inform a maintainer about a mistake, regarding the git version s/he should use. IOW we sometimes make mistakes, so there might be already duplicated packages and/or empty packages provided by AUR, but I guess this should not continue. However, perhaps I misunderstand the guidelines.
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