Re: [gcmd-dev] AUR - the Arch Linux repo - how did g-c get there?

[Uwe Scholz]

Hi,

07.10.2020 00:54:13 kht-lists via gcmd-devel <gcmd-devel@nongnu.org>:

> Hello Uwe,
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> Here is what is in the thread on the Manjaro forum:
>
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> Where did gnome-vfs come from? A depend of a depend?
>
> gnome-commander (1.10.3) PKGBUILD says:
> depends=('python2' 'libgsf' 'exiv2' 'taglib' 'poppler-glib' 'libunique' )
> makedepends=('perl-xml-parser' 'itstool' 'yelp-tools')
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>
> PKGBUILD is a file created by the AUR maintainer of the package. In fact I 
> just found the file which I have reproduced below. I suspect that it is an 
> artifact which was not cleaned up for newer versions of the gnome-commander. 
> In fact I had no problem building gnome-commander after in built gnome-vfs.  
> I have reviewed the Manjaro thread and I have no idea what the poster quoted 
> above was attempting to answer. I spotted the python2 dependency. A later 
> poster said:
>
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> The reason gnome-commander has been demoted to AUR - is the dependency of 
> python2 - which died 2019-12-31.
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>
> I believe the "demoted" refers to gnome-commander being removed from the 
> official Arch repo and put into the user supported repo. I think the whole 
> python2 concern is really not an issue.  Now I need to take the gnome-vfs 
> source code which magically downloaded from AUR and see if I can compile it 
> on Ubuntu 20.04. Then gnome-commander might build and install (or not).

Hm, from what I see in the file you posted below it really looks like they 
simply have to remove 'python2' and 'gnome-vfs' should be added, as mentioned 
by piotrv on 2020-07-08 on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-commander/

Best
Uwe