[aur-requests] [PRQ#7360] Orphan Request for discord

Doug Newgard scimmia at archlinux.info
Thu Jan 26 14:31:08 UTC 2017


On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:42:43 +0100
Martin Kühne via aur-requests <aur-requests at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Sorry, but your message did not answer my question.
> What about freetype2-infinality or other packages you may have implied
> is it that makes you say that they "will compromise the stability..."?
> TBQH, I don't like the phrasing of that and the smell of FUD around
> it.
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i

It's not FUD. There have been many issues with 3rd party freetype2 packages;
most recently with harfbuzz needing a symbol only available in 2.7.1 with 3rd
party packages lagging behind. With harfbuzz broken, many, many things crash,
including gdk-pixbuf2, gnome, and KDE.


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