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farin

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pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

I spent some time looking for the 32-bit version of pcsxr before finding it had been removed from the [multilib] repository this past March. I couldn't find the reason, though, and I'm wondering if I'm missing something obvious.

x33a

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Re: pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

Moving thread to Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues.

a821

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Re: pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

It's in the AUR. The only reference I could find in arch-dev-public since beginning of the year is this email. It probably became orphan and was consequently demoted to the AUR.

farin

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Re: pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

That makes sense. The problem is that the 32-bit version is the only one compatible with most of the (closed-source) plugins, so on 64-bit systems the AUR version is less functional than the one previously in [multilib]. The wiki still recommends installing that one, so either that page should be changed or (in a perfect world) the [multilib] package should be adopted and restored.

Scimmia

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Re: pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

It was dropped to the AUR as a multilib package. The new maintainer screwed it all up.

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 52f3f2ccfe

progandy

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Re: pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

I guess you could start maintaining a bin32-pcsxr package (maybe even for the pgxp fork) if the new maintainer doesn't want to support multilib.

By the way, are you aware, that mednafen and its libretro-beetle-psx fork for e.g. retroarch are in [community]? These seem to be recommended in the gametech emulation wiki.

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farin

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Re: pcsxr (32-bit) removed from [multilib]

I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to take on maintaining the package, so that'll have to either a while or be picked up by someone else. I appreciate the clarification on what's going on here. though, and confirmation that I'm not being especially dense.

By the way, are you aware, that mednafen and its libretro-beetle-psx fork for e.g. retroarch are in [community]?

Standalone mednafen doesn't have internal resolution options and retroarch's interface makes me feel like I'm going crazy, which are both personal quirks; I understand those emulators are generally preferable to pcsxr, though.