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Hey Arch-folk! Top requests for AUR packages you'd like to see brought into the [community] repository? edit: Or previously unavailable software that should b

by keenerd 13y ago

Hey Arch-folk! Top requests for AUR packages you'd like to see brought into the [community] repository? edit: Or previously unavailable software that should be in the AUR?

616c 13y ago
Just keep doing what you guys are doing (started using Arch after years of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, in order of preference). I am hooked. Thanks for finding the sweetspot between things I like with FreeBSD/Gentoo/Debian in terms of packaging and philosophy.
- agumonkey 13y ago
  hehe, came here to thank the arch team[s], I've been smooth sailing for a few years on top of their creation.
  - hrkristian 13y ago
    Oh. yeah. They deserve thanks times a million in my book. They and the rest of the open source community, but OSS didn't feel as great before as it does after I made the switch. [fanboyism intensifies]
    - agumonkey 13y ago
      Right, thanks are upstream recursively transitive.
bretthoerner 13y ago
I just looked at my AUR list and most are non-free. A couple popular standouts that are free: shutter, vagrant, gradle, leiningen, apache-ivy, jq
- arunc 13y ago
  Another archer here, since the 2009.
- sentenza 13y ago
  I'd add bittorrent-sync. Encrypted, de-centralized Dropbox replacement.
  - bretthoerner 13y ago
    That isn't free (as in open source), so I left that out.
    - sentenza 13y ago
      Fair enough. They claim to be thinking about open sourcing it, so there may be hope yet.
      - nodata 13y ago
        Meanwhile... https://github.com/calmh/syncthing https://github.com/calmh/syncthing
- dontdieych 13y ago
  shutter +1
zhemao 13y ago
The arduino package has been sitting in the AUR for an oddly long time given its relative popularity. I've been waiting for it to go into [community] but it hasn't so far.
zanny 13y ago
Heres basically all the free "small" (<10MB~) packages I could find in my aur installs: android-sdk-platform-tools archlinux-artwork audiothumbs bup darkplaces dolphin-box-plugin(-git) eduke32 firefox-aurora firefox-beta(-bin) firefox-nightly fontconfig-infinality freedoom freetype2-infinality glmark2 google-talkplugin grive gzdoom hexen2 kcm-ufw kcmsystemd kde-servicemenus-imgur kde-thumbnailer-epub kdeconnect kdeplasma-applets-veromix kup lib32-sdl_mixer lib32-simplescreenrecorder lib32-smpeg libjpeg6 libx11-ldpreloadnograb mprime nwn-gog openoffice-thumbnail-plugin php-dio plasma-mediacenter qgears2 qt5-jsbackend simplescreenrecorder speedtest-cli tor-browser-en transfusion ttf-neverwinter ubuntu-mono yamagi-quake2 zandronum These packages are also in that group, but all have huge package sizes so I imagine that would contribute to their exclusion (mostly due to bundling image or sound data): android-ndk android-sdk caledonia-bundle eduke32-dukeplus humanity-icon-theme kdeartwork-sounds kdeplasma-applets-starfield-wallpaper ksplash-archpaint2 light-themes openarena qt5-examples wallpaper-archpaint2 These are proprietary, or are only used by proprietary software, but to me seem to fall in the same class as Steam / Flash / etc, in that they are all at least freeware. binkplayer btsync btsync-autoconfig desura dropbox hon honpurple minecraft minecraft-server spideroak "Top" would be most of the kde stuff and all the foss id-tech engines for games. Though I imagine the reason none of them are in is due to some licensing reasons concerning the game data, though it is worth mentioning the demo data for most of those games is also in the AUR. And simplescreenrecorder. Best desktop screencasting software I've ever used, wondering why its in the AUR.
nextos 13y ago
Thanks for the awesome work to all Arch packagers. I really think isync deserves being brought to [community]. It's an awesome IMAP syncing tool created by the same guy who coded mutt and used by a lot of people. It really deserves moving to [community] to get to a wider audience. IMHO it's much better than offlineimap.
chimeracoder 13y ago
git-annex would be great! I've come to depend on it heavily for managing all my media files (pictures, music, video, etc.). I currently maintain the git-annex-bin package in the AUR[0], which uses the official binary, but that's compiled for Debian and has issues on Arch. For people who want to use git-annex on Arch, the choices are either (1) use this buggy binary, or (2) install cabal and a bunch of Haskell stuff[1], just to compile from source. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-annex-bin/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-annex-bin/ [1] which requires adding a separate repository, since Haskell is no longer in the main repos, and also installing a bunch of Haskell libraries that aren't in the AUR.
- 616c 13y ago
  It is my experience with Haskell Arch packages, as the lack of forum feedback suggested to me, with my troubles with dependencies for pandoc or git-annex-bin,[0] to go and cabal it.[1] That is just me. I know that goes against the point of this whole post, but I wanted to learn more about Haskell and part of that for me was leaving the farm and running wild, so to speak. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-setenv https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-setenv [1]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173781 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173781
  - nemetroid 13y ago
    This is my experience as well, and the person who maintains "ghc/cabal-install/and the other haskell packages in [extra]" had a similar sentiment in a reddit thread[1] eight months ago. Cabal is able to give you enough headaches on its own. :-) I do love pacman and the Arch package database in most other regards, however. [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1f26hg/why_does_haskell_suck_on_arch/ca6wt0c
viraptor 13y ago
Vagrant!
ginko 13y ago
It would be great if glfw2 were in community. While I like Arch's philosophy of always being on the cutting edge and making the glfw package be GLFW 3.0, I think it would be good if GLFW 2.x stayed in the official repositories for a while as a separate package. The two packages don't interfere with each other. It's basically the same situation as with SDL 2 and 3.
gillianseed 13y ago
How about 'packjpg' for AUR, it's an open source lossless JPEG compressor which gives ~20-25% compression, the resulting compressed files are either stored as single (.pjg) files or as archives (.pja) which can then be decompressed back into the original jpeg files. http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packjpg/ http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packjpg/
aw3c2 13y ago
aarddict as offline wiki reader gpa, the gnu privacy assistant qgis is free GIS gimagereader is nice OCR

by keenerd 13y ago

Hey Arch-folk! Top requests for AUR packages you'd like to see brought into the [community] repository? edit: Or previously unavailable software that should be in the AUR?

616c 13y ago

Just keep doing what you guys are doing (started using Arch after years of Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, in order of preference). I am hooked. Thanks for finding the sweetspot between things I like with FreeBSD/Gentoo/Debian in terms of packaging and philosophy.

agumonkey 13y ago
hehe, came here to thank the arch team[s], I've been smooth sailing for a few years on top of their creation.
- hrkristian 13y ago
  Oh. yeah. They deserve thanks times a million in my book. They and the rest of the open source community, but OSS didn't feel as great before as it does after I made the switch. [fanboyism intensifies]
  - agumonkey 13y ago
    Right, thanks are upstream recursively transitive.

bretthoerner 13y ago

I just looked at my AUR list and most are non-free. A couple popular standouts that are free: shutter, vagrant, gradle, leiningen, apache-ivy, jq

arunc 13y ago
Another archer here, since the 2009.
sentenza 13y ago
I'd add bittorrent-sync. Encrypted, de-centralized Dropbox replacement.
- bretthoerner 13y ago
  That isn't free (as in open source), so I left that out.
  - sentenza 13y ago
    Fair enough. They claim to be thinking about open sourcing it, so there may be hope yet.
    - nodata 13y ago
      Meanwhile... https://github.com/calmh/syncthing https://github.com/calmh/syncthing
dontdieych 13y ago
shutter +1

zhemao 13y ago

The arduino package has been sitting in the AUR for an oddly long time given its relative popularity. I've been waiting for it to go into [community] but it hasn't so far.

zanny 13y ago

Heres basically all the free "small" (<10MB~) packages I could find in my aur installs: android-sdk-platform-tools archlinux-artwork audiothumbs bup darkplaces dolphin-box-plugin(-git) eduke32 firefox-aurora firefox-beta(-bin) firefox-nightly fontconfig-infinality freedoom freetype2-infinality glmark2 google-talkplugin grive gzdoom hexen2 kcm-ufw kcmsystemd kde-servicemenus-imgur kde-thumbnailer-epub kdeconnect kdeplasma-applets-veromix kup lib32-sdl_mixer lib32-simplescreenrecorder lib32-smpeg libjpeg6 libx11-ldpreloadnograb mprime nwn-gog openoffice-thumbnail-plugin php-dio plasma-mediacenter qgears2 qt5-jsbackend simplescreenrecorder speedtest-cli tor-browser-en transfusion ttf-neverwinter ubuntu-mono yamagi-quake2 zandronum These packages are also in that group, but all have huge package sizes so I imagine that would contribute to their exclusion (mostly due to bundling image or sound data): android-ndk android-sdk caledonia-bundle eduke32-dukeplus humanity-icon-theme kdeartwork-sounds kdeplasma-applets-starfield-wallpaper ksplash-archpaint2 light-themes openarena qt5-examples wallpaper-archpaint2 These are proprietary, or are only used by proprietary software, but to me seem to fall in the same class as Steam / Flash / etc, in that they are all at least freeware. binkplayer btsync btsync-autoconfig desura dropbox hon honpurple minecraft minecraft-server spideroak "Top" would be most of the kde stuff and all the foss id-tech engines for games. Though I imagine the reason none of them are in is due to some licensing reasons concerning the game data, though it is worth mentioning the demo data for most of those games is also in the AUR. And simplescreenrecorder. Best desktop screencasting software I've ever used, wondering why its in the AUR.

nextos 13y ago

Thanks for the awesome work to all Arch packagers. I really think isync deserves being brought to [community]. It's an awesome IMAP syncing tool created by the same guy who coded mutt and used by a lot of people. It really deserves moving to [community] to get to a wider audience. IMHO it's much better than offlineimap.

chimeracoder 13y ago

git-annex would be great! I've come to depend on it heavily for managing all my media files (pictures, music, video, etc.). I currently maintain the git-annex-bin package in the AUR[0], which uses the official binary, but that's compiled for Debian and has issues on Arch. For people who want to use git-annex on Arch, the choices are either (1) use this buggy binary, or (2) install cabal and a bunch of Haskell stuff[1], just to compile from source. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-annex-bin/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-annex-bin/ [1] which requires adding a separate repository, since Haskell is no longer in the main repos, and also installing a bunch of Haskell libraries that aren't in the AUR.

616c 13y ago
It is my experience with Haskell Arch packages, as the lack of forum feedback suggested to me, with my troubles with dependencies for pandoc or git-annex-bin,[0] to go and cabal it.[1] That is just me. I know that goes against the point of this whole post, but I wanted to learn more about Haskell and part of that for me was leaving the farm and running wild, so to speak. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-setenv https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-setenv [1]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173781 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173781
- nemetroid 13y ago
  This is my experience as well, and the person who maintains "ghc/cabal-install/and the other haskell packages in [extra]" had a similar sentiment in a reddit thread[1] eight months ago. Cabal is able to give you enough headaches on its own. :-) I do love pacman and the Arch package database in most other regards, however. [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1f26hg/why_does_haskell_suck_on_arch/ca6wt0c

viraptor 13y ago

Vagrant!

ginko 13y ago

It would be great if glfw2 were in community. While I like Arch's philosophy of always being on the cutting edge and making the glfw package be GLFW 3.0, I think it would be good if GLFW 2.x stayed in the official repositories for a while as a separate package. The two packages don't interfere with each other. It's basically the same situation as with SDL 2 and 3.

gillianseed 13y ago

How about 'packjpg' for AUR, it's an open source lossless JPEG compressor which gives ~20-25% compression, the resulting compressed files are either stored as single (.pjg) files or as archives (.pja) which can then be decompressed back into the original jpeg files. http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packjpg/ http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packjpg/

aw3c2 13y ago

aarddict as offline wiki reader gpa, the gnu privacy assistant qgis is free GIS gimagereader is nice OCR