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

[Ike Devolder]

I understand your reason for doing it

and maybe be are some massochists as Philipp says because we're building on
a gcc *.0

but thats the fun of arch ofcourse

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

> I understand, and I am not trying to attack either, just wanted to clarify
> why I am trying the deb file to attempt to get it to work. See kamix was the
> previous version, kalsamix is the updated name version, so I am trying to
> get it to work in case something may depend on it or somebody wants it.
>
>
> On 06/04/2010 03:37 AM, Ike Devolder wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/04/2010 03:28 AM, Ike Devolder wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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