Top posting from my phone.
Pacman installs binary prebuilt packages only. It is not homebrew. Read the
project description and wiki on sourceforge for details about building from
source.
On 22 Feb 2015 17:21, "David Marceau" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My point of reference here is Manjaro's "add remove programs" in their
> XFCE start button menu. Is that one "pamac"? I tried octopi instead of
> using pacman. It's slow and painful compared to Manjaro Xfce's "Add
> Remove programs".
>
> Two reasons why the this one is important:
> -searching for dependencies is painful and painfully slow when using
> octopi.
> -pacman is responsively fast, but it doesn't always give me expected
> positive relevant results that I find with google. I know I'm
> stretching it, but if a package exists in arch. I implicitly believe
> the package should exist under msys2/mingw64 even if it doesn't compile
> yet. At least give a status that it doesn't build successfully yet when
> searching with pacman.
>
>
>
> While installing (mingw64 x86_64) glade, I had to build some
> dependencies and it took quite some time. Some were unsuccessful and
> then it didn't install under arch. I was surprised.
>
> -how does one retrieve the sources for a particular project with pacman?
> Is it implicit with every package we install, it fetches the sources,
> compiles them and installs them? Where does it install the sources?
> In arch?
> In msys2/mingw64?
> Is it the same target dir in both?
>
> Cheers,
> David Marceau
>
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