[aur-general] TU Application - Massimiliano Torromeo

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 03.10.2011 18:39, schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase:
> On 03.10.2011 18:32, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Reisner<d at falconindy.com>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch<thatch45 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
>>>> Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy!
>>>> Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both
>>>> mariadb and percona.
>>> Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no
>>> reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using
>>> replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still
>>> have a choice -- don't take it away from them.
>>>
>>> dave
>> Sorry, I got confused, my mistake. Only provides, of course!
> No, make it provides and conflicts. That is the way we handle
> alternative but conflicting choices of packages.
>
Wow what an outcry! I think he got it!

Massimiliano, I saw you have some ruby packages in your github repo, but
you did not mention ruby as a language you have skills in. I think we lack
someone with that skill.

Sven-Hendrik, do you sponsor Massimiliano? And do you mind to let the
discussion period begin? (Yes, I am a nitpicker)

I maintain pngcrush in AUR and thought myself to bring it to [community].
The main reason for not doing so was that we have optipng there, which does
entirely the same as pngcrush.

Regards Stefan