[arch-general] What to do about the "blender" package?

[Roman Kyrylych]

2009/7/19 Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com>:
> IMO the problem is that you (devs) use make to build blender which is
> several years deprecated and probably no-one builds blender this way.
> Maybe they've dropped support for it completely. I suggest using
> SCons. Maybe you can reuse my blender-svn PKGBUILD from AUR, only
> thing that has to be changed for this purpose is the part where data
> is downloaded from SVN server.
>
> There is one problem which I'm aware of with this package – it
> installs blender executable in /usr/share/blender and adds wrapper to
> /usr/bin. I'll probably move blender to /opt in near future.

There is also a request about building to SCons:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14893
and there is a PKGBUILD too (for stable, not svn version).

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)