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alocacoc

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-06-27

Posts: 104

Retroarch - Libretro Update Question

I use AUR to build the libretro cores, which can be quite time consuming.

In Retroarch itself I can download libretro cores with a single tap, which get stored in my home directory in a few seconds.

The emulator versions seem to quite similar, as far I can see with a few example tests, not sure about git versions.

What is the benefit of building the cores with AUR then the Retroarch downloaded versions?

Thanks.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Retroarch - Libretro Update Question

I think the ones downloaded in retroarch are ultimately nightly builds as well so you should be fine either way, not 100% sure though

alocacoc

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-06-27

Posts: 104

Re: Retroarch - Libretro Update Question

This are the two update urls retroarch uses. They seem to be nightly as you said.

http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/li … 64/latest/
http://buildbot.libretro.com/assets/

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Retroarch - Libretro Update Question

It could potentially be a problem if there's a soname bump in arch and one of the cores has a dependency that isn't up to date on the buildbot, but afaik

A) The cores are designed to have pretty much no outside dependencies from libretro iirc

B) Afaik a few of the devs use Arch as well so something like this would probably be noticed