On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 18:11 +0100, Xavier wrote: >> Why doesn't Arch ship that package ? It's a single 6 lines file, it >> cannot hurt anything. >> I just realized arch patches libdrm to not require it : >> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libdrm/repos/extra-i686/no-pthread-stubs.patch >> But official libdrm still requires it, and that's also what we get if >> we just clone libdrm git repo (usually needed if you also build git >> versions of ddx and mesa). >> > > The dependency is killed because it's useless. It's easy to kill, so we > do it. If you like to install the package because you want to build > stuff from git without killing the dependency from your sources, you're > free to install it on your system. Well ok, that's fine... > I don't see point in maintaining a package with just a 6-line .pc file. > That's also the reason why we don't maintain this package in extra or > any other binary repository, it's useless. > > ...but I don't buy this argument, there isn't any maintenance and cost involved compared to any other packages. And I feel up to the task, it will take 1 minute of my life, but also save a few minutes of my life for the few times I will have to install the aur package on a new system :) Compared to the many hours I spend talking about random useless stuff, I agree it's not much. I just disagree with the principle "let's kill 6 lines just because we can" but it won't change my life much, so no big deal ! I already forgot about it.
