Scripts: Remove PKGBUILD
I originally provided this an alternative to the broken AUR packages.
However, it seems that Arch users would rather use broken packages and keep complaining to me instead of their packager. I specifically forbid packages for DuckStation (see README.md), and there’s no way to request removal of these packages without handing my details over to a distribution I want nothing to do with.
So this is step one. Next step will be removing Linux support entirely, because I’m sick of the headaches and hacks for an operating system that only compromises 2% of the userbase, and I don’t even use myself. But I’m hoping the Linux community will be reasonable, because as someone giving up my free time and not being compensated in any way, I shouldn’t have to deal with this.
Just grep the source for “wayland” and you’ll see what I mean.
Yeah, I think I came across wrong, my bad.
I really think you’re good, at least in this particular case. This dev is absolutely being a jerk, having changed the license from the GPL to a much less free one and then getting pissed that people would dare to package the software for the AUR. I understand the whole “getting support requests from something you don’t want to support is annoying and time-consuming”, but surely there are other ways to deal with that rather than just making it impossible to use duckstation on Linux full stop.
Whatever though, people will just switch from duckstation to something else (something better, because the other options are actually free software) and this dev will continue developing non-free software and everyone is happy
Yeah, that was kind of my mindset from the start, but I didn’t articulate, I just shit posted lol
But yeah, changing the license and beginning down the path of hamstringing the Linux community was a bad faith move imo.
yes, i don’t agree with the way the dev has handled the problems but at the same time i have seen many maintainers really burn down by the same type of entitled users that keeping opening support requests about unsupported builds of the software. this is not just linux users being noisy but keeping reporting things that are very time consuming to debug and many times only reproducible on specific versions that are not maintained by the authors
at the end of the day, nobody will use duckstation on linux and since the userbase is growing maybe the whole project will be forgotten, but i see many people shitting on a dev trying to keep their sanity avoiding supporting a hard to please part of the community. i would imagine that gamers are even more insufferable than normal linux users