[aur-general] Deletion request

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 13.12.2010 01:33, schrieb Seblu:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon 13 Dec 2010 00:14 +0100, Seblu wrote:
>>> Delete package : oracle 11gR1-1
>>> (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23730&O=&L=&C=&K=&SB=&SO=&PP=&do_Orphans=&SeB=)
>>>
>>> Because, it's orphan, it's out-of-date, source link is broken
>>> (==cannot be built).
>>
>> Well, I must have deleted the source file in a recent cleanup. Sources
>> should not be hosted on the AUR. Otherwise let whoever the new
>> maintainer may be fix the PKGBUILD to retrieve sources remotely.
> 
> Ok my bad. I don't see it was a local link...
> 
> By trying to update this package i discovered that we need an oracle
> account and accept a license to be able to download the Zip files
> needed to installation.
> I don't believe this is simply scriptable in a PKGBUILD. So, we can:
> 1 - Delete the package
> 2 - Update the package and asking to user which want to build package
> to manually download zip files from oracle.com
> 
> What would you prefer?
> 

I would prefer the latter.