On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, at 21:23, Earnestly via aur-requests wrote:
Let's hope the open source package will adopt the appropriate name instead of having to hack around a packager who claimed it instead of properly using a -bin suffix to denote the package type in the first place.
As I've said here [1], here [2] and here [3] (and Microsoft said here [4]) the open source package is not allowed to use the name Visual Studio in any way. Therefore it needs to be renamed to "code", "microsoft-code" or something similar. So the open source package is named inappropriately, regardless of how I named the original package. Finally, when a package is binary only (i.e there is no indication an open source version does or will exist), not using a -bin suffix is perfectly acceptable. See steam [5] in the offical repositories. [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2017-December/021155.html [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2017-December/021158.html [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2017-December/021159.html [4] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-161792005 [5] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam/