[aur-general] Package deletion request

LordAro virus04089 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 09:45:13 EST 2012


On 28 December 2012 14:35, Robert Knauer <robert at privatdemail.net> wrote:
> On 28.12.2012 15:28, Charles Pigott wrote:
>> Ha, got it wrong :L
>>
>> Several problems with that:
>> - http://www.transporttycoon.net/where does not contain anywhere you
>> can download the files
>> - What do you mean "no unfree files in the source package" ? ALL those
>> files are unfree and are only available (legally) from the TTD CD
>>
>
> Okay, download was the wrong word... On the page linked in the PKGBUILD
> are links for buying TTD to get the files.
> And if you look into the package tarball[1], you can see that there are
> no unfree files, only the PKGBUILD.
> The purpose of the package is that you download the PKGBUILD, buy TTD,
> copy the files from TTD into the directory with the PKGBUILD, run
> makepkg and install the package you got. There's nothing illegal about
> it and in my opinion no reason to delete the package from AUR.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> [1]
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/op/openttd-ttdwin/openttd-ttdwin.tar.gz

Ah, sorry, i'm new to these things.
In that case is there any point in having the package at all if it
just contains the PKGBUILD file?
Installation instructions are clearly documented on OpenTTDs wiki..
http://wiki.openttd.org/Installation#Choosing_TTD_for_base_graphics
(I know they are put in different folders, but they do the same thing...)


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