I am not at all against AppImage. But the latest wire-desktop is in Arch repo, so having wire-desktop-appimage in AUR is pointless.
On 17 June 2023 18:23:08 GMT+02:00, Ashleigh Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: >One can also install many things on the AUR by using flatpak or a package >manager. Does not mean they should be removed. > >Just stop with the seeming anti-appimage, ok? > >On Sat, 17 Jun 2023, 13:51 Marcell Meszaros, <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> One can also install a standalone AppImage file by running it. It does not >> need to be packaged via an AUR PKGBUILD. >> >> >> On 16 June 2023 18:55:00 GMT+02:00, Ashleigh Rowe <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Marcell, >>> >>> That may be the case, but there are many reasons to want to use an >>> appimage over a natively installed application. And, given that it is not >>> the same package, it need not be deleted. Taking the same logic to it's >>> extreme, one could argue that a -git and a -bin version of a package need >>> not both be on the AUR, as for users, it is the same. >>> We both know, however, that this is not the case. >>> On 16/06/2023 17:31, Marcell Meszaros wrote: >>> >>> > So, by your own admission, it is not a duplicate of a repo package then? >>> >>> Hi Asleigh, >>> >>> Thank you for your reply. >>> >>> The way I see it, the Arch repo version integrates better with the system >>> and does not include unnecessary bloat. >>> >>> The AUR AppImage version carries its own Electron runtime rather than >>> using one available from Arch repo. >>> >>> The feature set is the same. >>> >>> So, for all intents and purposes, the AUR package is the same for users. >>> >>> Except the latter takes up more space, and is potentially more insecure >>> >>> There are frequent updates of Electron in repo. >>> The AUR package won't update its built-in electron separately. >>> >>> On the other hand, repo's wire-desktop package will always use the latest >>> repo-updated version of its electron runtime. >>> >>> All in all, the AUR version is an inferior duplicate. >>> >>> In my understanding, it is only useful to have AppImage packages of >>> especially Electron-based applications on AUR if the Arch repo does not >>> carry that application. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Marcell (Mars) >>> >>> >>> On 16 June 2023 17:23:12 GMT+02:00, Ashleigh Rowe <[email protected]> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> So, by your own admission, it is not a duplicate of a repo package then? >>>> >>>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 at 16:20, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for wire-desktop-appimage [2]: >>>>> >>>>> Duplicate of repo package, not needed: >>>>> >>>>> https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/wire-desktop/ >>>>> >>>>> This is an Electron-based application, so there is no benefit in using >>>>> this AppImage in a PKGBUILD. The repo version has the exact same >>>>> application code. >>>>> >>>>> And repo verison is even better because it does not duplicate the >>>>> electron runtime, but depends on the relevant repo electron package. >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ >>>>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wire-desktop-appimage/ >>>> >>>>
