Re: [aur-general] Source packages in the AUR
This package is useful when one wants to write C/C++ extensions to gawk. There's a bunch of header files available only in the source (while there is one gawkapi.h in the official gawk package, it is not sufficient for developers who want to build their own extensions). http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Internal-File-Ops.html It works exactly the same way as linux-headers and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-source/ (Correct me if I'm wrong). They exist mainly not for general users, but for developers who want to build their own modules from scratch. Even though it is relatively unpopular to build extensions in gawk, you can't assume the source package is "useless" in any case. Just let you know what this is intended for. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
On 09/13/13 at 01:11pm, Eric Bélanger wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth@gmail.com wrote:
We have no policies against useless packages. I have faith that the AUR web system + devs/TUs will be able to keep AUR useful, also in the future, despite of this, though. :)
- Alexander / xyproto
That is incorrect. There are policies:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Submitting_packages
- Make sure the package is useful. Will anyone else want to use this package? Is it extremely specialized? If more than a few people would
find
this package useful, it is appropriate for submission.
- The AUR and official repositories are intended for packages which install generally software and software-related content, including one or more of the following: executable(s); config file(s); online or offline documentation for specific software or the Arch Linux distribution as a whole; media intended to be used directly by software.
Since these source packages aren't of any use, I'm removing it and CC'ing the AUR submitter.
-- Jelle van der Waa
-- Best Regards, Mort Yao
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:30:28AM +0200, Mort wrote:
This package is useful when one wants to write C/C++ extensions to gawk.
There's a bunch of header files available only in the source (while there is one gawkapi.h in the official gawk package, it is not sufficient for developers who want to build their own extensions). http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Internal-File-Ops.html
It works exactly the same way as linux-headers and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-source/ (Correct me if I'm wrong). They exist mainly not for general users, but for developers who want to build their own modules from scratch. Even though it is relatively unpopular to build extensions in gawk, you can't assume the source package is "useless" in any case. Just let you know what this is intended for. [...]
Seems to be an intersting package. Ciao, Oliver
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:30:28AM +0200, Mort wrote:
This package is useful when one wants to write C/C++ extensions to gawk.
There's a bunch of header files available only in the source (while there is one gawkapi.h in the official gawk package, it is not sufficient for developers who want to build their own extensions). http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Internal-File-Ops.html
It works exactly the same way as linux-headers and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-source/ (Correct me if I'm wrong). They exist mainly not for general users, but for developers who want to build their own modules from scratch. Even though it is relatively unpopular to build extensions in gawk, you can't assume the source package is "useless" in any case. Just let you know what this is intended for.
I think the point is that this package doesn't provide anything that can't already be just as easily obtained via ABS and 'makepkg -o'
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Dave Reisner
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Mort
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oliver