Package Details: ctune-git v1.3.3-0

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/ctune-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: ctune-git
Description: NCurses internet radio player for Linux.
Upstream URL: https://github.com/An7ar35/ctune
Keywords: audio multimedia music ncurses radio
Licenses: AGPL3
Conflicts: ctune
Provides: ctune
Submitter: An7ar35
Maintainer: An7ar35
Last Packager: An7ar35
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2022-01-19 19:13 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-23 17:38 (UTC)

Dependencies (16)

Required by (0)

Sources (1)

Latest Comments

m040601 commented on 2025-01-22 17:44 (UTC) (edited on 2025-01-25 13:39 (UTC) by m040601)

Thanks to @An7ar35 for continuing to develop this tool and taking care of the PKGBUILD. Very appreciated.

About the "pandoc" makedependency.

As of now,

17 makedepends=('make'
18              'cmake'
19              'git'
20              'pandoc')

yay -S ctune-git

Packages (229) cppdap-1.58.0-2  ghc-libs-9.2.8-1
               haskell-aeson-2.1.2.1-63  haskell-aeson-pretty-0.8.10-23
               haskell-ansi-terminal-0.11.5-16
               haskell-ansi-terminal-types-0.11.5-17
               haskell-ansi-wl-pprint-0.6.9-436  haskell-appar-0.1.8-14

           ...... hundreds of haskell pandoc dependencies

               haskell-zip-archive-0.4.3.2-11  haskell-zlib-0.6.3.0-69
               hslua-cli-1.4.1-65  jsoncpp-1.9.6-3  rhash-1.4.4-1
               cmake-3.31.4-1  pandoc-cli-3.1.12.1-1

Total Download Size:    81.23 MiB
Total Installed Size:  581.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

That's because the official Archlinux "pandoc" pulls thath half a gigabyte of dependecies.

This does not make any sense. I should not have to install half gigabyte of pandoc just to generate/compile some simple Markdown of man pages files. And then throw it away. Let's think how can we improve this absurd situation.

From the ctune README:

┄┄┄Compile from source

Requires the following to be installed on the system first:

• cmake version 3.17 and the CMake extra-modules package
• git for fetching the repos
• ffmpeg, vlc player libraries*
• lame for recording streams to mp3
• curl and openssl libraries
• sdl2  or pulsedaudio or alsa or sndio or pipewire sound library/
  servers*
• pandoc and gzip for the man page

So "pandoc" is in fact required by the default build process. Tragic but true. There are other much lighter and simple tools to build man pages and markdown like for example "scdoc".

Maybe the "ctune" developer is not aware of them ???

In the mean time. What can we do here in the AUR ? One could just dump it and forget about the man pages or .md doc files. That is of course not a good option. Is there a better one ?

Now, there is in the AUR a "pandoc-bin"

Repository                    : aur
Name                          : pandoc-bin
Version                       : 3.6.2-1
Groups                        : None
Provides                      : pandoc=3.6.2  pandoc-cli=3.6.2
Conflicts With                : pandoc-cli
Replaces                      : None
AUR URL                       : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-bin
First Submitted               : Tue 03 Oct 2017 09:45:37 AM WEST
Last Modified                 : Mon 13 Jan 2025 07:50:33 AM WET
Popularity                    : 4.524963
Votes                         : 314
Out-of-date                   : No



It is a very very popular, with many votes and well maintained PKGBUILD. 

It is a good alternative for those who need pandoc and dont want the
absurd half gigabytes of dependecies.


As you can see,

Provides : pandoc=3.6.2 pandoc-cli=3.6.2


So, if you have "pandoc-bin", anything else on the AUR that requires pandoc as a makedependency, 
will use it. Instead of prompting the user to install  the official "pandoc".

That is the case of "ctune-git". If you have ALREADY  "pandoc-bin" installed, then "ctune-git" will not pull the official pandoc.

If you dont, then "ctune-git" just pulls pandoc.

Now. Some users might be unaware of this. And think the only way is
having those half gigabyte pulled.


So  the best way would be to adjust the "ctune-git" PKGBUILD to also accept or prompt
the user to choose between "pandoc" or "pandoc-bin". Instead of
immediately pulling "pandoc".

Repository : aur Name : ctune-git Depends On : ncurses openssl curl ffmpeg alsa-lib libbsd Optional Deps : pulseaudio pipewire-pulse pipewire sdl2 sndio vlc Make Deps : make cmake git pandoc Check Deps : None ```

Or at least display a brief message about this option.

Thanks in advance.

simona commented on 2024-08-03 13:46 (UTC)

now ok

An7ar35 commented on 2024-08-03 13:00 (UTC)

@simona I've updated the dependencies in the PKGBUILD to use pipewire-pulse instead. Should solve that problem for now.

simona commented on 2024-08-03 09:18 (UTC)

:: pulseaudio-17.0-3 e pipewire-pulse-1:1.2.2-1 vanno in conflitto. Rimuovere pipewire-pulse? [s/N]