[arch-general] Vala out of date

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Fri Aug 27 14:34:56 EDT 2010


On 08/27/2010 09:33 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Ionuț Bîru<ibiru at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 08/27/2010 08:58 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote:
>>> Wouldn't it be easier for you and everybody else if you deleted vala
>>> from the repo completely? There are no packages that require it and
>>> users who need it have to get the latest version from AUR anyway.
>>
>> there are several packages in repos that require vala at compilation.
>>
>> $ grep -rl vala /var/abs/
>> ...
>
> 5, to be precise:
>
> community/awn-extras-applets/PKGBUILD
> community/avant-window-navigator/PKGBUILD
> community/libdesktop-agnostic/PKGBUILD
> extra/midori/PKGBUILD
> extra/gmpc/PKGBUILD
>
> I don't know what's worse - installing Vala to build these from AUR or
> read the 1 millionth request to update Vala :)
>
> Denis.

i could just ignore them but i'm a good guy and reply with a motive and 
redirect them to aur-> vala-devel

-- 
Ionuț


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