Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Harrrr on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:00PM (#23214890)

I have a noob question, but how do proprietary apps (IE: Slack) make it onto the AUR without having an official binary?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by dialamac on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:19PM (#23215049)

There’s nothing to really block much on the aur. There are some guidelines in naming and no duplicates, no maliciousness etc that are enforced, but that’s it. But anyone can upload a build script (PKGBUILD) for anything.

If you want to see how it’s done search the package name and AUR and you can see the build script right on the website.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Harrrr on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:25PM (#23215109)

TIL! Thank you :)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by detaro on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:03PM (#23214908)

Both Slack and Spotify do provide Linux versions, even if not/less supported officially.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Harrrr on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:27PM (#23215134)

Thanks! I hadn't tried Arch yet, but I just saw the pkgbuild script on the site (didn't know it was there) and it makes since now :)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by kmarc on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:36PM (#23215709)

There are many PKGBUILDs on AUR that cactually download rpm / deb packages and unpack the binaries and deps from it.

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