On Saturday 13 November 2010 15:23:45 Heiko Baums wrote:
Nice, then I would need to install 110 packages from AUR and compile them manually. When I switched to Arch Linux about 3 years ago it was less than 50. Is a tiny that you do not use any of ours ~8000 packages in official repositories.
When will the so called "binary distribution" Arch Linux become a second Gentoo, a pure source based distribution, because "no developer is interested in maintaining" anything anymore? Btw., PKGBUILDs also in AUR need to be maintained. Yes, by people which use them.
Also squashfs-utils which is "degraded" to community belongs to [extra] because it is necessary for building LiveCDs as far as I know. Then? You cannot install software which is in [community]?
And, btw., funny enough was ding updated recently although it was orphaned. Yes, was updated by *ME*. Me, Ionut, Eric, Daniel, Giovanni (etc..) update orphans packages when we have a bit of time. But we do not use them and we cannot do many tests, we cannot know if upstread dev added some new feature, etc.
I wouldn't say anything if you would cleanup the official repos from unnecessary, unimportant and unused or hardly used packages like some ttf fonts, GTK1 themes, etc. But there are too many, too important packages in your list which definitely belong into the official binary repos and which are in the official binary repos of every other binary distribution. I'd like to see your application as TU.
-- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer