On 20 December 2013 04:20, WorMzy Tykashi <wormzy.tykashi@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 December 2013 18:44, Rashif Ray Rahman <schiv@archlinux.org> wrote:
Just provide for and conflict with the relevant packages and you don't give anyone any trouble.
It's halfway there, it doesn't conflict with or provide theharvester package, though that's something I was going to mention when I comment about some changes they should make to the PKGBUILD (shouldn't be an 'any' package, binaries shouldn't be in /usr/sbin, etc.). I just wanted to check that such packages are allowed before prompting them to fix it up.
But if this whole thing is a package of a real software collection (and not just a mash-up by a packager) then I see no problem.
It's the latter, the package pulls from two different, unrelated sources and merges them into one package. The only thing is, neither source is otherwise available on the AUR or official repositories (as far as I can tell).
A better way to rephrase what I meant is this: if it's a useful bundle that people will use (if some people find the beta dep better), then there is no problem. The "Arch way" would be to provide a separate package for the beta dep instead, but you can tell if your idea (of bundling) is working if nobody says anything about that. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1