[arch-dev-public] Moonlight in ArchLinux?

Eduardo Romero k3nsai at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 22:38:44 EST 2009


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > Daniel Isenmann schrieb:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> there were a discussion on the arch-general list about why not adding
> >> moonlight to the repo
> >>
> >> (
> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-January/003326.html).
> >>
> >> Now I want to discuss this topic further from a developer point of view.
> >
> > First thought: I don't care. I have never come across anything that needs
> > Silverlight/Moonlight.
> >
> > Second thought: If I ever come across a site that needs it, I'd be happy
> if
> > it would be available with pacman -S moonlight.
> >
> > Third thought: I still don't care, and I won't until I come across the
> > situation in my second thought.
> >
> > So if you want to maintain it, do it. If not, then don't.
>
> This is my sentiment too. I've never needed Silver/Moon-light for
> anything. I even used to use it for work at my last job, but I never
> needed to visit those sites in Linux. That said: the recent US
> Inauguration was broadcast with Silverlight, so it is seeing some use.
>
> I will echo Thomas' point: I don't care, but if I need to care at some
> point, pacman -S moonlight would be great.
>
> +1 for inclusion as long as you have the desire to maintain it.
>

I add ny +1 to this group.
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