[arch-general] Why isn't RetroArch in the Arch repos?

Diego Viola diego.viola at gmail.com
Tue May 3 12:28:30 UTC 2016


On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Maxime Gauduin <alucryd at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Rob Miller <docrobot at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 09:26:20PM +0200, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Rob Miller <docrobot at riseup.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 03:40:39PM -0300, Diego Viola wrote:
>> > > > Any reasons?
>> > >
>> > > Probably due to not enough interest in the package. Also, despite the
>> > > name, RetroArch has nothing whatsoever to do with the Arch Linux
>> > > project. Just thought this might bear mentioning.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Just a heads up, I am and have been interested in bringing retroarch into
>> > [community] and have had nightly builds going around for a while.
>> Hopefully
>> > I'll have the time to do so in a not so distant future.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --
>> > Maxime
>>
>> Is it only a matter of time, or are there other things in the way?
>> Anything that people can help with?
>>
>
> Time only, the build issues I had when I first got into it were fixed in
> the 1.3 release.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Maxime

Hi Maxime,

Just noticed that RetroArch landed in community, thanks for doing this. :)

Diego


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