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Lone_Wolf

Member

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Soundfont need extracting tool - separate package or not

I have found a nice soundfont on the net and have started a package to install it so timidity++ can use it.

This soundfont is in a compressed format (sfark) and a binary application is necessary to extract it to make it usable for timidity++.

Arch has no package for that binary application.

Is it ok to write a separate package for it and have the soundfont package depend on another AUR package ?

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Soundfont need extracting tool - separate package or not

Yes, write a seperate package for the extracting app.  That way, other users will be able to use it to create other soundfont PKGBUILD.

Lone_Wolf

Member

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: Soundfont need extracting tool - separate package or not

Thank you, Snowman.
I've made a package and copied the license from the website.
I hope to test it this weekend and will then submit it to the AUR.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

(A works at time B)  && (time C > time B ) ≠  (A works at time C)