Re: How to rename an AUR package

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:10:11 -0500, bill-auger wrote:
>oh my - did i just give advice on how to distribute proprietary
>software? - please, no one tell the Great Gnu - /me is so
>embarrassed :)

Not necessarily. Sometimes GNU software is available as bin, too.
Building software such as Icecat from source could takes hours on some
machines. Upstream URL http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ ;).

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat-bin/

By providing FLOSS software as bin, it also could be easier to work
around dependency issues.

However, I'm not against proprietary software. I'm using
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocz-ssd-utility/ to get useful SMART
output, since the output of smartctl is useless for my SSDs, let alone
that I could update the firmware and other useful features are provided
by this proprietary software.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocz-ssd-utility/

Not only useful, but really needed for my machine:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/intel-ucode



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