[aur-general] question about community packages vs aur

Johnathan Jenkins shaggytwodope at teknik.io
Mon Sep 7 14:40:04 UTC 2015


On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 04:22:14PM +0200, Maxime Gauduin wrote:
> 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
That sounds like reason enough, thanks for the help. Going to mark for deletion.
-- 
John "ShaggyTwoDope" Jenkins
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