Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Xyne wrote: > > It's like suggesting to go to the beach and instead of someone > objecting with "I think it's too cold today... have you checked the > weather?" you get a 5 minute tirade about much it sucks to get sand in > your clothes, how swallowing seawater is b

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 Aug 2009 19:20 +0200, Xyne wrote: > It's like suggesting to go to the beach and instead of someone > objecting with "I think it's too cold today... have you checked the > weather?" you get a 5 minute tirade about much it sucks to get sand in > your clothes, how swallowing seawater is bad

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-27 Thread Ronald van Haren
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Xyne wrote: > [...] > It's like suggesting to go to the beach and instead of someone > objecting with "I think it's too cold today... have you checked the > weather?" you get a 5 minute tirade about much it sucks to get sand in > your clothes, how swallowing seawate

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-27 Thread Xyne
Nélson «VuDu» Cunha wrote: > Ok, > five consecutive negative replies ought to be enough, even if some of > them look like they just read the last reply before them and simply > missed my point. > If I would've start this in the forums instead and maybe I could get a > couple of neutral or even po

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-27 Thread Nélson «VuDu» Cunha
Ok, five consecutive negative replies ought to be enough, even if some of them look like they just read the last reply before them and simply missed my point. If I would've start this in the forums instead and maybe I could get a couple of neutral or even positive (in a constructive way) comments,

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 27 Aug 2009 01:47 +0200, Arkham wrote: > > On 27/ago/09, at 01:35, Nélson «VuDu» Cunha wrote: > > >Sorry, but please don't try to make it sound like I said that because > >that's not an argument at all. > >Following what I said before, making steps harder isn't necessarily > >going to make

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Allan McRae
Nélson «VuDu» Cunha wrote: Sorry, but please don't try to make it sound like I said that because that's not an argument at all. Following what I said before, making steps harder isn't necessarily going to make people walk through them more carefully. I don't agree that an on-line code editor woul

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Arkham
On 27/ago/09, at 01:35, Nélson «VuDu» Cunha wrote: Sorry, but please don't try to make it sound like I said that because that's not an argument at all. Following what I said before, making steps harder isn't necessarily going to make people walk through them more carefully. I don't agree that a

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Nélson «VuDu» Cunha
Thanks for the link, some sure help. I just knew a couple of them. ;) On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 15:53, Xavier wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM, vlad wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:45:56PM +0200, Xavier wrote: >>> Besides, with the existing AUR helpers >>> [http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Nélson «VuDu» Cunha
Sorry, but please don't try to make it sound like I said that because that's not an argument at all. Following what I said before, making steps harder isn't necessarily going to make people walk through them more carefully. I don't agree that an on-line code editor would make people do more mistake

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM, vlad wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:45:56PM +0200, Xavier wrote: >> Besides, with the existing AUR helpers >> [http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=AUR_Helpers] , it should >> make all this very easy : >> - download / extract current package >> - edit p

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread vlad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:45:56PM +0200, Xavier wrote: > Besides, with the existing AUR helpers > [http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=AUR_Helpers] , it should > make all this very easy : > - download / extract current package > - edit pkgbuild > - run makepkg and namcap > - makepkg --sou

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Xavier
2009/8/26 Nélson «VuDu» Cunha : > I agree that simple updates to PKGBUILDs should be easier. > I've seen many packages with typos in PKGBUILDs, showing that the > extra workload of having to archive the files and upload them doesn't > necessary make users test things before uploading. That's all up

Re: [aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Ronald van Haren
2009/8/26 Nélson «VuDu» Cunha : > Hello, > following the weird titled "AUR webpage" thread ( > http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/thread.html#5602 > ) I think the way maintainers handle their packages could have some > things simplified. > > I agree that simple updates to PKGB

[aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

2009-08-26 Thread Nélson «VuDu» Cunha
Hello, following the weird titled "AUR webpage" thread ( http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/thread.html#5602 ) I think the way maintainers handle their packages could have some things simplified. I agree that simple updates to PKGBUILDs should be easier. I've seen many packag