[aur-general] question about community packages vs aur

Maxime Gauduin alucryd at archlinux.org
Mon Sep 7 14:22:14 UTC 2015


On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Johnathan Jenkins <shaggytwodope at teknik.io>
wrote:

> It seems the anonymous-pro font is now available in the community repos
> (has
> been for sometime actually).
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-anonymous-pro/
>
> And I have the package
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-anonymous-pro-minus/
> that just provides the minus version of the font.
>
>
> So the qestion is, should it be deleted in favor of the community version?
> Or is
> it ok to keep the package as it provides a specific version of the font(s)?
> --
> John "ShaggyTwoDope" Jenkins
>

If the [community] package was much larger, I'd keep the AUR package. But
saving a few KB of bandwidth and half an MB or so of storage doesn't really
justify the existence of 2 packages.

Cheers,
--
Maxime


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