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

[Nathan O.]

Though I am not sure I am going to have any success with this, every 
thing that I attempt and know to try fails.

On 06/04/2010 03:46 AM, Ike Devolder wrote:
> 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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