[aur-general] Usefulness of conky-lua-nv-dev

Chris Sakalis chrissakalis at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 03:38:08 EDT 2012


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Chris Sakalis <chrissakalis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Ike Devolder <ike.devolder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Op zaterdag 23 juni 2012 19:37:37 schreef Chris Sakalis:
>>> Hello,
>>> this conky-lua-nv-dev[1] package is really outdated and all the
>>> development is done in git nowadays. I left a comment two weeks ago,
>>> but the maintainer did not respond. I did not email him though.
>>>
>>> The conky-git[2] package allows the users to configure cmake
>>> themselves, so it is possible for them to enable nvidia and lua if
>>> they want. Of course, they have to manually install the dependencies,
>>> but dev packages are aimed at more advanced users anyway.
>>>
>>> For the sake of simplicity and a cleaner AUR, perhaps [1] should be removed?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Chris Sakalis
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47050
>>> [2] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22240
>>
>> The package provides another functionallity so i dont think it is useless,
>> although it should be updated.
>>
>> if you contact the current maintainer and you have no response in 2 weeks we
>> still can see what to do with it.
>>
>> --Ike
>
> OK, I will send him an email, and if he does not respond, I will
> reopen this thread.
>
> --Chris Sakalis

Hello again.

Two weeks have passed since I emailed the maintainer but he didn't
reply. Once again I suggest deleting the package[1], since development
is done in git now. Also the package will not build and it has zero
votes.

--Chris Sakalis

[1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47050


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