Laurent Carlier
Le lundi 4 août 2014, 18:15:32 Christian Hesse a écrit :
Hello everybody,
following a lengthy discussion sublu just deleted my package virtualbox-extension-pack from AUR. This is what his package (virtualbox-ext-oracle) does:
* Install an archive file. * Use install script to copy a number of files to /usr without pacman knowing about it.
I think this is the wrong way, so I created my own package (virtualbox-extension-pack) that tries to get it right:
* Just install the files required, "ready to use" for virtualbox. * No crappy install script required!
My package had about 75 votes IIRC, probably there would have been more if more people knew about the details. The discussing had a number of comments that agreed about my opinion regarding installing/coping files to /usr with pacman or the install script.
Although I think it is wrong seblu is free to provide his package via AUR. But is there any good reason mine is not allowed to reside there?
I've checked both packages, then i've also checked virtualbox documentation. Documentation is available at http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ * Ch8.36. VBoxManage extpack * <
> In regards of VirtualBox docs, Seblu is installing extension pack the proper way.
Mozilla provides a tarball named firefox-31.0.tar.bz2. We could make pacman install that, then use the install script to extract the package and run install.sh. No? What upstream recommends is a way that should work on all distribution, ignoring the distribution's tools. I do not think this is the way to follow if we can get it better. Files in /usr should be tracked by pacman, with some really rare exceptions only. In my opinion virtualbox or its dependencies are not.
Your package isn't following upstream way to install extension package and you are not sure it will keep working, you are just lucky.
I can update my package whenever upstream changes how things work. So what? Packages are modified all the time.
Your package is only a duplicated package of seblu's one, only differing on the way to install extension pack files isn't a good reason enough. Seblu was right to remove your package, there was an explanation before suppressing, rules were followed.
Nothing more to say.
I do not agree. This is pretty stupid. My package does not hurt anybody and a lot of people do want to use it. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}