[aur-general] TU Application - Seblu

[Jelle van der Waa]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 06:34 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:16:58 -0600
> schrieb Brad Fanella <bradfanella at archlinux.us>:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Seblu wrote:
> > >>> Yes great. I'm not paid by package i maintain.
> > >>> Do not misunderstand my intentions, this package is more often
> > >>> used without gtk (subjective).
> > >>> It's a really useful package for debugging network issues and got
> > >>> it in a server is a plus.
> > >>> Server => no gtk => no user repository packages. This was my
> > >>> reasoning.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I find this a really good idea, there is no reason for mtr to
> > > require X to be running. So I suggest moving mtr-gtk into aur and
> > > having a "sane" mtr package using the cli interface (on which ARCH
> > > users are so keen :-P -- ).
> > >
> > > mar77i
> > >
> > 
> > Why do you suggest that? Can't we have "mtr" (which is the CLI
> > version) and "mtr-gtk" in the repos? Just curious.
> 
> I haven't read the whole thread, but this is indeed so easy. Just create
> a split package mtr which builds the two packages mtr-cli and mtr-gtk.
> mtr-cli could then be removed from AUR.
> 
> A request for such a split package should be filed to flyspray as a bug
> report or feature request for the package mtr from [extra]. And the
> removal request for the AUR package mtr-cli would then belong to this
> mailing list.
> 
> Heiko

+1 for Heiko, indeed just split mtr and give the user both the options.

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Jelle van der Waa