Hello,
"signal-desktop-bin" is a binary based package. It's using Signals official
APT packages and packages the provided prebuilt binaries.
"signal" on the other hand directly builts signal-desktop from source
Given the fast moving JS/Electron community and possibly breaking builds
due to incompatibilities of signal-desktop's code with the latest arch
build dependencies, I suggest keeping the -bin package for an easy to use,
quick installing alternative to the source build.
The `-bin` suffix is widely used in AUR so I suppose most users do
understand the implications.
PS: There used to be a third signal package in AUR - "signal-desktop" - it
was recently deleted. It also was building from source so more a duplicate
of "signal" rather then "signal-desktop-bin.
Thanks for your understanding,
I hope this package can be preserved.
Best regards,
Janek
On 27 February 2018 at 11:47,
buzo [1] filed a deletion request for signal-desktop-bin [2]:
There is another AUR package called signal with the same content. Either this package or the other one could be deleted.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/buzo/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/signal-desktop-bin/