[aur-general] TU application - artafinde

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On 01/11/21, Levente Polyak via aur-general wrote:
> Hey Leonidas,
> 
> I wish you good like as well. May the force be with you :D
> 
Thank you

> For now I just have a tiny bit after reading through your mail:
> 
> 
> On 10/31/21 19:24, Leonidas Spyropoulos via aur-general wrote:
> > AUR packages (I maintain) interested in moving to Community
> > ...
> > - intellij-idea-{ce,ue}-eap (Provided their license is allowing that)
> 
> Those are early access programs. We should not by default endorse a bleeding
> edge set in the official repos that are deemed purely for testing and
> feedback purpose rather than production usage.
> 
> JetBrains also marks them with a specific warning:
> # This is an early access version of the product
> # You expressly acknowledge that this version of the product may not be #
> reliable, may not work as intended and may contain errors. Any use of # the
> EAP product is at your own risk.
> 
> I'm not really fond of the idea to put them into our repos, the AUR is a
> quite good fit for it. Both are also just re-packaging the JetBrains dists
> so build time isn't really something to be concerned about. On top I see
> problems doing that with the JetBrains license issued for those two dists.
> 
Fail point - keeping them in AUR is it.

-- 
Leonidas Spyropoulos

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