[arch-general] Cannot install shaman from AUR

[Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)]

On 06/06/10 at 06:30am, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM, xenof0nt <xenof0nt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry there is no other alternative. The only solution is Shaman2 but
> >> currently is in Alpha stage. That means it is highly unstable and dangerous
> >> for your system.
> >> Arch will never provide a graphical tool for pacman.
> >> So if you can't live with this, then change to another distro
> >>
> >
> > Never say never.
> > Just curious, where does that come from ?
> > Why couldn't a sufficiently motivated developer write a GUI frontend
> > to libalpm good enough to get it packaged ?
> > This actually happened with shaman, it was packaged in community by
> > the main makepkg developer, Allan !
> >
> 
> Yea. Whats wrong with a GUI frontend? People will use pacman or the
> frontend- whichever they prefer. I know arch's wants to keep it simple
> but providing a good frontend in the repos isnt a bad idea.
It's been discussed before and rejected. If you want to know reasons and
logic, search the forums or the MLs. No sense in beating a dead horse.
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