TODON'T

I’ve recently been playing around with joplin as a notebook and TODO manager. I initially looked at it because I’d been kind-of using org-mode and an associated iOS app but finding that it was a little too flexible and let me lose my .org files or create a convoluted mess of a document hierarchy. The app was pretty shit too.

Joplin is nice because it’s simple - you have a number of workbooks, and you create todos and notes in markdown format. You can sync via dropbox (so no cloud service, no signup) , and the killer feature for me is the terminal app.

But life’s never easy and when I went to build from AUR the fucking build was failing on some Electron nonsense. Both the Electron and terminal apps are bundled in together, and I really don’t care for the former, so I managed to fix it all by removing it from the PKGBUILD:

--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -42,13 +42,6 @@ build() {
   npm install

   # Electron App
-  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/ElectronClient/app"
-
-  npm install
-  rsync -a --delete "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/ReactNativeClient/lib/" \
-    "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/ElectronClient/app/lib/"
-  npm run compile
-  npm run pack
 }

 package() {
@@ -57,15 +50,10 @@ package() {

   cp -R "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/CliClient/build/"* \
     "${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}-cli"
-  cp -R "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/ElectronClient/app/dist/linux-unpacked/"* \
-    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}"
-

   cd ${srcdir}
-  install -m755 joplin-desktop.sh "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/joplin-desktop"
   install -m755 joplin.sh "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/joplin"

-  install -Dm644 ../joplin.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/joplin.desktop
   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/LICENSE" \
     "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
 }

Makes me glad I have a build container to keep all the build trash off my main environment!