On Sat 30 Apr 2011 16:12 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 30/04/11 12:25, Loui Chang wrote:
On Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49 -0400, keenerd wrote:
I would like to move Aurphan into community. I've added a number of features to it lately, and it has become an automated means of answering "what can I do to help Arch", parsing and summarizing the todo list, the bugtracker and the orphans. The one random dev I've asked seems cool with it, however he thought a wider consensus should be found. It has enough votes but....
Aurphan could be considered an AUR helper. By default it searches the AUR for AUR packages you already have installed. It does not download anything.
I will change it so the default behavior does not search the AUR. (New default would display the --help) I won't change the name, on account of it being cute.
aur page: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43726 project page: http://kmkeen.com/aurphan/
This script seems like a really nice idea, but if it deals with unsupported packages it should remain in that domain. Maybe move the functionality that deals with unsupported into an add-on that you can install separately?
We should also drop wget, curl and firefox from the repos as they can be used to download unsupported packages... In fact, this script is safer because it does not even do that.
Allan, I appreciate your work but you completely missed the point. wget, curl and firefox do not contain functionality to specifically access the unsupported packages. They are general network programs. I guess it depends on what your vision is. If you want more people expecting support for unsupported packages, then put these scripts into extra or community. I can't stop you, I'm just a lowly nobody and you're a big bad dev.