FS#26086 - [prelink] Don't prelink the Skype binary (and possibly other ugly blobs) by default

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 08:38 GMT
Last edited by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Friday, 07 October 2011, 12:54 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Prelinking spoils the encrypted and checksummed Skype binary somehow. It doesn't start and creates a dialog window "Please reinstall Skype". It might be good to exclude Skype from prelinking by default. Or perhaps the Skype package could contain a prelink hook...? The latter might be a better solution.
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Closed by  Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Friday, 07 October 2011, 12:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Sverd Johnsen (sjohnsen) - Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 11:49 GMT
This is a feature request, not a bug report. prelink resides in Community. I doubt any maintainer is interested in working around proprietary blobs, deal with it yourself.
Comment by Andrej Podzimek (andrej) - Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 11:54 GMT
I wouldn't report this if either prelink or skype were only in AUR or not supported at all. But both of them are in Community right now. What's wrong about making proprietary blobs easier to use? Yes, I can deal with it myself, but if I wanted to deal with everything myself, I would be using Linux from scratch.
Comment by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Tuesday, 04 October 2011, 13:50 GMT
We try to ship that package as vanilla as possible and maintaining blacklists for every package in the repositories implies way too much work. Feel free to create a blacklist yourself and share it using the AUR.

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