Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. -------- Original Message -------- On January 19, 2018 7:24 PM, Eric Jardas via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 19/01/2018 sL1pKn07 fabio via aur-requests wrote:
FabioLolix [1] filed a deletion request for nodejs-fake [2]:
pacman --assume-installed option exist [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/FabioLolix/>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nodejs-fake/
Of course it does, but that has to be used on every update and installation of package that has nodejs as dependency (which lets be honest not a lot of people look into before installing a package). This pseudo package helps nvm be the only source of nodejs regardless of installs and updates. Since the package is in aur, it doesn't have to be used if you want to do the hassle of using --assume-installed on every install and update. Having a choice is a good thing in my opinion.
I just had a philosoraptor moment: if every dimwit can come up with a dummy package to pretend X was installed, does that mean we have to treat your dummy package as valuable? For each real package that already exists, there's a potential *-fake package to be created, are you sure you want to have thousands upon thousands of *-fake packages on AUR? And we're definitely not talking about the apulse kind of fake. I somewhat cannot tell. Part of me insists in "good riddance". cheers! mar77i