Am Dienstag, dem 15.08.2023 um 14:20 +0200 schrieb Christian Heusel:
Excerpts from Fabian Bornscheins mail at 23/08/11 10:04AM:
Hey everyone!
Hey Fabian!
Hey :)
Now that I'm back on Arch, I do help people on various platforms, such as Fedi/Mastodon, Matrix, and Telegram. You can find me using my 'fabiscafe' alias.
I think I have also seen some helpful comments from you on Reddit :)
Shh. Nobody would ever connect me to that reddit imposter :o) - But for real I'm not much on reddit these days, thats why I haven't listed that account
In the last 2-3 years, I've been working on another project: FCGU. It's an Arch Linux repo for GNOME pre-releases. I started it because testing GNOME pre-releases on Arch was tough, and the AUR wasn't suitable for something as big as GNOME. What began as a personal venture grew when others wanted to test it too. I reached out to find some people who wanted to provide mirrors, and now it's a thing! :) The PKGBUILDs are nowadays on Arch gitlab.
While skimming through the packages a bit I found two things:
- *rpan-studio*: (I saw afterwards that you wanted to drop the package[0] anyways ^^) - I think you could use `-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None` as per the cmake packaging guidelines[1] in build() - Currently fails to build
The problem with RPAN-Studio was/is(?) that even after build you might be unable to connect to RPAN. At least last time I worked on the PKGBUILD and managed to make it build, the software itself was not usable for anything. That's why I kept it unchanged. There was a little hope that it is popular enough to find someone else to maintain the PKGBUILD. Now that you mention it, that was 2 years ago and I should probably fill the request - and thanks for this hint. I might push this as last change. :)
So, around 2015/16-ish, I found my way back to Arch, just to jump ship yet again over to (oh no!) Manjaro.
Now I hope the Manjaro stuff doesn't exclude me directly and thanks for reading all of this. :)
Please dont overdo the "Manjaro bad" meme ... While arch sometimes has (had) a rocky relationship with its downstream distributions or their userbase (especially because of the fact that support is limited to arch only) there is nothing wrong with using them as long as its fullfills a usecase for you.
Nahh, it was just some fun. The community is actually pretty nice nowadays and the "Manjaro is Arch"-mentallity slowly fades away, too.
So, in a nutshell, I want to: - Offer GNOME unstable releases (beta, rc) in gnome-unstable - Assist in transitioning them to Arch once they become stable versions
I think you could be a great addition to the team, so good luck regarding the further application process!
Thanks :)
cheers, gromit
[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rpan-studio#comment-826926 [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines#CMake_can_automati...