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#26 2008-02-20 23:30:39
- B-Con
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Re: Which packages do you prefer to manually compile?
Deluge - They have a PKGBUILD on the website! Also 0.5.8.4 came out almost a week ago, and the repos still have 0.5.8.3. For an application that notifies you during runtime if there is a new version, you'd think it would be quickly upgraded. Oh well.
Yes, I've noticed. I had to turn off the auto-notify option.
I didn't know they provided a PKGBUILD. Sweetness. :-)
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#27 2008-02-20 23:50:04
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Re: Which packages do you prefer to manually compile?
FFmpeg, x264, Mplayer, Swfdec (for system FFmpeg), GIMP plug-ins, and all of E17 are the normal packages that I compile myself. There's always the stuff like FF3b3 and Cairo, LyX, and others that I'll drop when the repos match what I want.
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#28 2008-02-21 00:47:26
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Re: Which packages do you prefer to manually compile?
Deluge - They have a PKGBUILD on the website! Also 0.5.8.4 came out almost a week ago, and the repos still have 0.5.8.3. For an application that notifies you during runtime if there is a new version, you'd think it would be quickly upgraded. Oh well.
FYI.. the PKGBUILD on their website is adapted from the one that used to be in the AUR, and has some non-critical errors e.g. makedepends=('subversion'), conflicts/provides=('deluge'). You would achieve a better result by downloading the PKGBUILD for our deluge package from CVS and simply changing pkgver to 0.5.8.4.
More general advice: if you find yourself thinking that any particular package should "be quickly upgraded", please remember that Arch devs do Arch work in their spare time, and have 'regular' lives to live as well.
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#29 2008-02-22 17:33:43
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Re: Which packages do you prefer to manually compile?
Zope2 (as we constrained to Zope2.9), and some other python packages (Python 2.4 is default on my desktop). Daemon package from Unsupported to run Folding@home as daemon. It was the first good expression from Arch, that I can run my Atheros WiFi network card (DLink-something) without building custom kernel. I was used to rebuild kernel under Debian and never do this since migrate to Arch.
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