[aur-general] AUR and deb or other precompiled stuff

[Ike Devolder]

i'm sorry if this is somekind of attack on your effort to keep this packages
up to date

it was just your message about kalsamix that triggered my concern about deb
packages since i saw more of this.

2010/6/4 Nathan O. <ndowens04 at gmail.com>

> First I just wanted to clear this, I would normally build from source, but
> if it doesn't work I will attempt at a deb package, but even that doesn't
> work
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> On 06/04/2010 03:28 AM, Ike Devolder wrote:
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>> in some recent updates of some packages you see more and more deb's or
>> rpms
>> or whatever being extracted and repacked for arch
>>
>> is there some aur guideline about this, i really don't like this
>> development
>> because why not take advantage of our bleeding edge gcc power
>>
>> if the source is there, why not build from it?
>>
>> in cases like opera it is understandable because it is not open source,
>> but
>> in some other cases like kalsamix i find it very disturbing
>>
>> maybe some other comments about this ?
>>
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