On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:43:28PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
You should really think about that. There are many of the most important, oldest and best known packages in this list like dia, ding, xboard, eboard, epdfview, slmodem etc.
In other words, your list is likely the half of the distro.
If you would put all of them to AUR then you could give up Arch Linux, because then it has almost no advantage over Gentoo, that is, then will Arch Linux become a second Gentoo, because the users will have to compile a lot of (most of the) important packages manually.
Erm. There's still a chance all those packages will be moved to [community] instead of unsupported. E.g. dia, xboard, epdfview and slmodem are still marked as candidates to [community] and will not be moved to the AUR.