[aur-general] Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects a good idea and who should decide on that ?

[Daniel M. Capella]

Quoting Lone_Wolf (2019-05-04 18:24:28)
> I have decided how to proceed with mesa trunk / llvm trunk building.
> 
> There are now 6 lone_wolf-* packages in AUR that show how I want to do 
> things.
> 
> 
> Although Scimmia intensely disliked it, I have implemented the 
> environment variable idea in lone_wolf-mesa-git .
> 
> First tests are promising, I could succesfully build mesa trunk against 
> stable llvm with this command :
> 
> lone_wolf_use_llvm=4 makepkg -Crs
> 
> After some more testing I'll use the same method in 
> lone_wolf-lib32-mesa-git .
> 
> 
> Whether those PKGBUILDs will be used in future aur mesa-git , 
> exclusively in aur lone_wolf-* packages or not present in AUR at all is 
> a decision TUs must take.
> 
> 
> I uploaded my first AUR package somewhere in 2006 and would hate to have 
> to take my packages elsewhere.
> 
> However TUs have always been the people that administer AUR not the 
> users. IF TUs tell me my packages are not wanted in AUR I have to follow 
> my own personal standards and remove the packages.
> 
> Waiting for a decision, Lone_Wolf

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2019-May/031274.html

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2019-May/031310.html

v_v

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Best,
Daniel <https://danielcapella.com>
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