On dim., 2015-12-20 at 09:32 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 20/12/15 09:26, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
I plan to move back agetpkg to extra next week if there is no objection.
I am assuming agetpkg is for dealing with archived packages (which are unsupported). The reasonv for not including AUR helpers in the repos was that they give what appears like supported access to unsupported content. Why should agetpkg be considered any different?
I think there is a difference between outdated official packages and non- official packages. The last may not have the level of quality, trust and be harmful for a system. So preventing helpers to be in official repository make sense. In the other hand, agetpkg helps to retrieve previous official packages in order to troubleshoot or rescue a broken system when they are missing in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/X. I think what is not supported is non-official packages and reporting issues about non up-to-date packages, not downloading an outdated one. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A