Am Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:46:30 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org>:
I adopted some (and edited the page). Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352
On Thursday 11 November 2010 22:54:36 Roman Kyrylych wrote: three days ago). 62 will be moved to [community]. 127 to AUR.
I didn't expect this success. I can start moving them today if you agree.
<AUR> ding galculator gift gift-fasttrack gift-gnutella gift-openft gimp-fourier gtklp hexcurse httrack pan screem tcptraceroute
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. 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. Really sad this progress and this massive and pointless cleanup. Those packages are also quite common and important:
eboard gdesklets lincity pure-ftpd tcsh tin
I guess there are some more in your list. Also squashfs-utils which is "degraded" to community belongs to [extra] because it is necessary for building LiveCDs as far as I know. You really should reconsider this cleanup. You should consider that such a distribution - and Arch Linux isn't a small and unimportant distro anymore - is not only about some personal preferences of the developers. Developers of such a binary distro should also maintain packages which they are not using themselves. And, btw., funny enough was ding updated recently although it was orphaned. 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. Heiko