ah, thank you DCengineer for providing me a reason for making it optional.
I'd back-and-forth'd about it in the 1BitSquared community Discord and we figured to make it a normal dependency in favour of ease of use, however as this screws up your use case that's a good reason to me to drop it back to optional.
I will make this change for today's nightly.
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perigoso commented on 2023-05-02 23:24 (UTC)
A binary repo with the pre-built nightly packages is available here:
https://gitlab.com/kicad/packaging/kicad-arch/kicad-arch-builder#binary-repo
DX-MON commented on 2022-08-17 09:18 (UTC)
Thank you to all those who've made us aware of some recent build system changes that broke things - we'll work on a patch and issue corrected files in the next day or two. Apologies for being slow to get back to this.
DX-MON commented on 2020-11-30 13:11 (UTC)
benx45h: There are two major differences between the two packages.
The first is that this one isn't just "whatever the latest is in Git", but rather is pinned to a particular commit each day so as to aid reproducability and try and help guarantee a usable build each update
The second is that kicad-git cannot be installed along side kicad, which means if you want to use both a kicad-git nightly build and stable on the same machine, it's just not possible.. This package on the other hand is designed to be side-by-side installed so suffixes on -nightly and puts both config and binaries in a different location to allow all this to work seamlessly.