On 2022-01-01 14:48, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 05:33:08 +0100
* All packages built from pre-compiled sources in the AUR should
retain the
"-bin" suffix to indicate this, without exception.
Packages that cannot be built from source have always been an exception
here,
are you proposing to eliminate that? It makes little sense to have a
-bin
package when there cannot be a non-bin version.
Doug is right that there has always been an exception here. The rule to
date as I've understood it is that the package must be suffixed with
-bin if the source is available whether a package exists or not, but
many closed source packages have been exceptions.
That being said I would fully support a proposition to make this a
requirement for *all* binary packages whether source is available or
not.
We should probably make that issue it's own thread because it really
isn't the same issue as whether -bin packages should be deleted if repo
builds are available.
Caleb
