Saturday 13 October 2007, Dan McGee wrote: | I feel like packages like this belong in community or | unsupported, not extra. plotutils is now a dependency to pstoedit (libplot link we had not in the pkg was also making other pkgs like inkscape having trouble with some functionabilities), which is in extra, so i had to move plotutils to extra as well. because x-repo depends are hierarchial and extra is higher (more official) than community. on your subject: to a certain extend, i agree: we should not add just anything to official repos just because somebody is here now to maintain it. however, if a pkg is an active project (not a pain to maintain) and has a value (dont ask me how to measure this - archstats were once a way - no idea what happened with this project) i.e. is used by some archers and some devs, then there should be no problem in adding it to extra. i'm less for restricting the addition of a pkg to extra but more to the aspect of strict maintainence. about the link to the cleanup of repos you mentioned: extra has orphans that are old and unmaintained mainly because earlier, before any community repo or TU repos or AUR, extra was the only place to put things to... old times gone by, we grew but still there are some games and some other things around that are "archaic"... and of course because maintainers added them who left or focused on something else now, they stayed. this is a one-time effect we see now... because now, since some time now, we have community. we are able to move things from community to official and back if needed - thats how it should work. good night, sleep well, - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><