How is this invalid? there is no reason this should be removed and this package isn't breaking any rules or causing any harm, by removing libelectron-electron-meta people wont be able to launch their apps as they will be missing electron and I would have to go go through and update all my packages just to fix this while getting complains that the apps stopped working when there is again no reason to remove this package No that wouldn't make it useless at all, it's used to define a electron version and ensure stability and control of my packages, if anything does go wrong I can easily update the meta package to upgrade or downgrade and easily update all my packages electron version with the meta package, while using depends=electron-* is good and fine if anything goes wrong I will have to go through every package to manually fix an issue That's like saying why does Linux-meta exist, when this is for the exact same reason. I have given valid reasons, but you are not listening, just saying "they aren't valid" when there is no reason to even touch the package in the first place just shows you don't want to have actual discussion but to have it your way or the highway and be here to be the arbitrator of power where there is no need to be or reason. You even admitted that it will be broken if you remove it when you said earlier "so there wouldn't be any breakage," again why even touch my package when you can't even give a valid reason to even delete it when it's not breaking any rules and cuaing any issues. IT exists for more fine quality control. Corey Bruce On 23/9/25 06:13, Muflone wrote:
Hi again
1. removing it would cause a lot of breakage and issues not just for me but for all the people using my package and I feel like this was a nuclear out of nowhere solution instead of just contacting me and making suggesting instead of threating to have my package removed and should have been handled way better then this.
The 100% of the packages requiring libelectron-electron-meta are maintained by yourself so there wouldn't be any breakage, you should simply switch to the correct matching electron version. This dependency was added by you forcefully, it's not a strict requirements the application have.
Reason 1 is invalid
2. I am one developer and this easily helps me maintain and control the electron versioning for all my software as I now use the repo packages of electron and the AUR if the package doesn't yet exist and if anything goes wrong or a update with electron causes any issues I can easily revert the version of just libelectron-electron-meta and fix the issues for all my packages instead of painstakingly go through each and every package and not have control of what version of electron my software uses
This reasons simply defines you use libelectron-electron-meta to eventually change the needed electron version without updating the packages, so at the actual state such package is 100% useless and you hope to use it the day the electron version would change, instead of updating your packages.
To me this reason 2 is 100% invalid to keep the current libelectron-electron-meta package in the AUR.
Please provide valid reasons to keep this package, if they exist, or change your packages dependencies to use the correct electron version (like all the electron packages - including the official one - do), drop the libelectron-electron-meta dependency or they will become broken when the libelectron-electron-meta package will be removed.
Best regards