[aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 04:22:01 EDT 2012


On 16 March 2012 20:55, Det <nimetonmaili at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2012 14:55, "Alexander Rødseth" <rodseth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The current maintainer, taylorchu, replied:
>> > 1. it uses no gconf, so you dont need gtk3.
>> > 2. it does not try to move and symlink. it is vanilla as provided
> by google.
>>
>> Do you still request the package to be deleted?
>
> Well, the symlinks can be removed as they are unnecessary nowadays (the
> man page and the .desktop _should_ still be installed), while 'no-gconf'
> could just as well be manually installed from the AUR beforehand, as it
> replaces 'gconf'.
>
> Building 'openssl098' is the only thing that might bother some people.
> It could be moved to optional dependencies, since not everybody uses the
> built-in Pepper Flash anyway (which requires it).
>
> At the _very least_, if this package was to be kept in the AUR (which I
> disagree with) the name should be changed to something like
> 'google-chrome-dev-no-gconf'. But using the same logic every single
> package in the AUR depending on 'gconf' could be cloned with '-no-gconf'
> alternatives.
>
> Is _this_ what we want?
>
>                           Det

I'll remove google-chrome-mini when the google-chrome-dev get's
updated with the changes you mentioned.

Lukas


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