On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, at 14:22, Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote:
On 2022-02-17 11:59, Ben Denhartog via aur-general wrote:
No, it's pretty straightforward, but note that being "closed source" and/or "difficult to compile from source" are not qualifying factors for determining whether or not a package should be moved to community.
I'm not arguing that `kind-bin` _should absolutely_ be moved to community, simply that the parameters you're asking about are not pertinent to whether or not it is.
To be honest, I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Are you saying that software being closed source or with significant compiling difficulty would have no bearing on their inclusion into [community]. Are you saying that you would rather bring in binary releases into the repositories?
Ah, I get the issue. Yes, the AUR package is a binary package; no, if it were moved to community I would not be downloading the release binary but instead building from source in accordance with the Go Package Guidelines [0]. I replied off-the-cuff while in a meeting and completely glossed over that aspect of the discussion. [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Go_package_guidelines
(BTW, please do bottom post on Arch mailing lists :))
Good catch :) -- Ben Denhartog ben@sudoforge.com