On 7 November 2011 19:40, Matej Ľach <matej.lach@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/11/11 19:30, 郑文辉 wrote:
在 2011-11-8 上午3:09，"Stefan Wilkens"<stefanwilkens@gmail.**com<stefanwilkens@gmail.com>
写道：
2011/11/7 Nicola Bignami<nicola@kernel-panic.**dnsdojo.net<nicola@kernel-panic.dnsdojo.net>
:
I see that there are more than 6700 orphan packages. Of those, more than 2400 are also flagged out of date (some packages have not been updated
since
2007). Many packages are only waiting for a new maintainer but I think that many are only waiting to be scrapped as they're already been replaced by some other package in the AUR or in the community repository (or just become obsolete).
I'm wondering if the time has come to look into them to find out what
worth
to keep and what have to be removed and thus do some cleanup.
If can be useful, I can start working on it.
Keeping the user repository clean and up-to-date sounds very KISS and Arch to me, but some criteria should be stated. Many packages that depend on python v2, for instance, are simply broken because they were not properly updated to reflect repository changes [1]. The goal with these packages should likely be to adapt the build, not consider them broken.
Perhaps create a page on the wiki so that this work can be shared with others in the community. Such a page might also allow us to have a nice final list that can be fed to the nearest TU in one go, rather than a flood of deletion requests.
Should you initiate this, I would surely help out. Who knows what fun software one might run into :)
Maybe we should have some category system to help manage the PKGBUILDs in AUR.We can tag them by "package whith third-party patch" , "CVS package" ,"SVN package","GIT package","nightly builds","Beta version","need review","need to be dropped" and so on.Let the community vote for each tag to produce a squence of some tag ie. "need to be dropped" to let the TUs working on.
(As a user) - I think this is a great idea.
-- Best Regards, Matej Ľach
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aurdupes is good place to start because it lists packages that already exist in repos, among other things. During my AUR cleaning over summer I made a script to help me find packages that could be deleted. It's very buggy and incomplete but I've attached it for you or anyone else to use or build upon. Gadget3000