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

Diego Viola diego.viola at gmail.com
Tue May 3 12:38:11 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Diego Viola <diego.viola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Can someone please help me check the wiki reflects the new package in community?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RetroArch

I've already made a small change to reflect to the new package in
community, but I don't know if more changes are needed.

Thanks,
Diego


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