Am Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:33:32 +0100 schrieb Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org>:

Hi DEVs/TUs, currently we have 700 (counting both arches and any) orphans packages in [extra]. As member of the orphans team, I made a list[1] of these packages and I'd like to move them to Unsupported. If some DEV wants to keep a package simply cross it out (adoption is not required, but it would be nice) or reply to this mail. If some TU wants to maintain a package in [community], please write the name into the "Candidate to [community]" section, *DO NOT* cross it out. Or reply to this mail.

I think that a week is enough time for this job. 17th November I will move the remaining packages to Unsupported and the candidates to [community].

Cheers

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup

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. And the reason why I switched from Gentoo to Arch Linux about 3 or 4 years ago after using Gentoo for about 6 years was that I was sick of compiling everything and that Arch Linux was a binary distribution. So if you would really do this clean up and move all these packages to AUR then I could and most likely would switch back to Gentoo. So really, please, reconsider your idea of doing this massive and pointless cleanup. Btw., ding was updated recently. Heiko