14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
7:01 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:43:03AM -0400, Alex Belanger wrote:
I think they do it because otherwise some users would remove their packages thinking nobody uses them while it might not be the case. People doesn't seem to understand a PKGBUILD, even if orphaned, does no harm and might even help some - as long as the name isn't conflicting with anything of course.
Implying TUs--with the relatively large volume of requests on this mailing list--can magically make an intelligent decision about whether an existing package is worthy of deletion? I'm already aware all TUs are ninjas.. but Gods? I'm not sure about that one (as much as I'd love to be proven wrong).