[aur-general] large number of deprecated/duplicate flashplugin packages

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 19:41:16 EDT 2011


On 15 July 2011 02:22, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> What's about these flashplugin packages?
>
> flashplugin9 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21045)
> Totally outdated and most likely full of security holes.

Quite outdated indeed; removed.

> lib32-flashplugin (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15406)
> Seems to be identical with flashplugin from [multilib] and misses some
> files like the .desktop file.

That package doesn't use nspluginwrapper like the one in [multilib].

> lib32-flashplugin10.1 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49982)
> Seems to be the same as lib32-flashplugin but outdated.

They're different versions. Maybe it should be deleted, but I'll leave
it as is for the moment.


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