Package Details: electron-launcher 1.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/electron-launcher.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: electron-launcher
Description: Launcher script that forwards to the latest installed electronXX binary
Upstream URL: None
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: electron, electron-nightly-bin
Provides: electron, electron-launcher
Replaces: electron, electron-nightly-bin
Submitter: mkurz
Maintainer: mkurz
Last Packager: mkurz
Votes: 0
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2025-06-04 20:38 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-06-04 20:38 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

Zoddo commented on 2025-11-02 16:25 (UTC)

This won't work if the package is built in a chroot or another machine.

I don't think there is a proper way to ensure during the pacman transaction that at least an electron version is installed.

oech3 commented on 2025-11-02 14:46 (UTC)

Maybe, depends=($(compgen -c | grep -E '^electron[0-9]+$' | sort -V | tail -n1)) and failing logic for empty depends should protect user from missing electron.

oech3 commented on 2025-09-21 08:11 (UTC)

@Zoddo This could be used for partial downgrading of electron automatically.

But, hook for symlink libs is missing which cause build faulure of other apps. Moreover, the situation that no electron* is installed could happen.

Zoddo commented on 2025-09-17 21:43 (UTC)

Doesn't the electron package from [extra] basically already do the same thing? Or am I missing something?

oech3 commented on 2025-06-20 17:52 (UTC) (edited on 2025-06-20 17:54 (UTC) by oech3)

Hook keeps /usr/bin/electron is symlink to /usr/bin/electronNM where electronNM is latest installed electron. /usr/lib/electron is symlink to /usr/lib/electronNM where electronNM is latest installed electron.

If no electron* is installed, /usr/bin/electron could be echo Please install one of electron package; exit 1.

(This could be installed even no electron* are installed. This is really probrematic. But it is impossible to solve...)

mkurz commented on 2025-06-20 15:27 (UTC)

Should be pacman hook instead of launcher.

What should the pacman hook do? Thanks!

oech3 commented on 2025-06-14 08:40 (UTC)

This breaks packages expecting actual bins and libs at /usr/lib/electron/*.so e.g. libffmpeg.so. Should be pacman hook instead of launcher.