[aur-general] deletion request

[David Adler]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:53 PM, William Giokas wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:50:11PM +0100, David Adler wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Johannes Löthberg
>> <kyrias at archlinux.info> wrote:
>> > On 02/23/2013 10:28 PM, atilla ontas wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If i get it right, you want to create directories and copy files. Then why
>> >> not use "install" command?
>> >> Like;
>> >>
>> >> install -d -m 755 $srcdir/foo-version/src/foo.so
>> >> $pkgdir/usr/lib/foo/foo.so
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2013/2/23 David Adler <david.jo.adler at gmail.com>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Just copying. As simple as it sounds, I didn't find a simple solution,
>> >>> but it's not unlikely that I'm missing the obvious.
>> >>>
>> >>> regards
>> >>>
>> >
>> > My thoughts exactly.
>>
>> That would be >400 install invocations for >400 files&dirs?
>>
>> For a similar case, Stackoverflow comes up with solutions
>> involving autotools[1], though I think that would not be
>> worth the effort.
>>
>> For users it is about as simple to download the preset and
>> extract the tarball as it is to first install it and then recursively
>> copy a directory from /usr/share.
>> They'll need the preset in a writable location anyway.
>>
>> Unless there is a really simple one-liner, I don't feel inclined
>> to make that preset an installable tarball again.
>>
>> From what I read, recursively installing directory trees in
>> a "don't look and just install everything"-manner is not
>> recommended anyway, and all non-recursive sulutions
>> seem to involve some effort to adapt the build system
>> every time the directory tree changes.
>>
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6395148/install-data-directory-tree-with-massive-number-of-files-using-automake
>
> You know, you could just user /usr/bin/cp -r and some chmod magic if you
> actually need that.

I'd first have to research whether that is a violation of the Arch Packaging
Standards.

I'd rather see that package deleted. I am the upstream author and, for
aforementioned reasons, I don't see any advantage in having that preset
installed. Neither from a user's pov nor from a dev's one.