[aur-general] Delete duplicate xampp package

Sven-Hendrik Haase sh at lutzhaase.com
Mon Mar 16 17:05:14 EDT 2009


On 16.03.2009 21:56, Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 16:45, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>   
>> Currently, there are two packages for xampp that do the same thing:
>> xampp-linux, which was there two years earlier and just xampp.
>> The xampp PKGBUILD is pretty much the xampp-linux PKGBUILD with
>> added stuff for taking care of x86_64 because the regular xampp-linux
>> package
>> will not work properly with x86_64.
>>
>> Therefore, this situation is a little complicated. I propose the
>> deletion of the xampp package
>> and notification of the xampp-linux package maintainer in order to make
>> the package
>> x86_64 compatible.
>>
>>     
>
> Which is the proper name though? If the xampp PKGBUILD is better, and
> that's how it should be named, we should keep that one, perhaps orphan
> it so the original maintainer can take care of it
>
>   
Technically, xampp-linux is correct because the xampp package for Linux
contains different applications and plugins than the packages for
Windows, Mac OS X der Solaris. Also, the xampp-linux package got there
first and boasts most votes.


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