[aur-general] Questions about some of my packages being adopted in [community]

[Konstantin Gizdov]

> Yes I did check the comments, which turned out to be a very old comment
> about extra dependencies in rxvt-unicode-afterimage if enabled. Since
> the mentioned package doesn't even exist today, I believe it's not an
> issue anymore.
That's good. I had to recompile `root` to properly link the other day
and can confirm it worked for me, just wasn't sure in general as I
couldn't find the history anymore.

On 14/10/2018 22:19, Felix Yan wrote:
> On 10/1/18 2:51 AM, Konstantin Gizdov wrote:
>> I believe that is not true. I even enabled more functionality in
>>> libafterimage, actually.
>> You mean when you removed `--disable-svg` flag? I might be wrong, but I
>> think there was a reason to leave it disabled. You'd have to check comments
>> or Gentoo/Fedora package to be sure.
> Yes I did check the comments, which turned out to be a very old comment
> about extra dependencies in rxvt-unicode-afterimage if enabled. Since
> the mentioned package doesn't even exist today, I believe it's not an
> issue anymore.
>
>>> There's precedence for maintainers of specialized software in the AUR to be
>>>
>>> sponsored to become a Trusted User (though it seems there's a preexisting
>>>
>>> relationship?).
>>>
>>> I am not sure how much this applies to me in this case, but if it does I
>>> can say the following. I am willing to apply for a Trusted User to maintain
>>> ROOT's stack for Arch. I use the ROOT software on a daily basis. I take
>>> great care of the package (the whole stack actually) as my work depends on
>>> it. I have a test bench and people in my professional area use it and
>>> depend on me to bring improvements and new possibilities. I have involved
>>> myself and consider it an on-going duty. I have the skills and know-how to
>>> maintain the ROOT stack and I can say with certainty that AUR's ROOT
>>> package is only second to Fedora's package across other distros. But I also
>>> understand it is not perfect and am interested in making it better as I've
>>> shown previously here and to its users.
> Glad to see your TU application, it would be great if you will maintain
> the related software in the official repositories instead, as you are
> definitely more familiar and I have too many packages already :)
>
> (I somehow forgot to reply to the question above, sorry for the late reply!)
>

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