On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:20:15AM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > > >So the cause must be... A change in user-base? Maybe just an increase in > >user-base resulting in more people who think Arch should be done their > >way and not the Arch way? > > Well, I think this viewpoint is too elitist... I am not sure that you > should blame users who just read > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#LCD_filter_patched_packages > and who don't even know that cairo is a dependency of gtk2. (Come on, > do you know well every installed library on your system?) And with > broken cairo the user just gets "fav_gtk_app: error while loading shared > libraries...", so it requires a little bit sophisticated bug-hunting. > Yes, but it's the duty of the AUR-package maintainer to bump the pkgrel version to indicate taht this package (in this case cairo-lcd) needs to be rebuild. And on the other hand it's the user's "duty" to take care of his own built packages, ie to actually rebuild the package. I see nothing elitist therein. It's just a simple usage procedure. --
