On 21/09/2009, Smartboy
I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got:
audacious-beta http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26394, audacious-plugins-beta http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26395: Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2 minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without hurting anything.
bang http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15238: This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained upstream.
beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver: Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2 years now. These can be removed.
cairo-newspr http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16587: Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned it. I see no reason for this package to stick around.
catalyst-vanilla http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24451: Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD.
ejourn http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2772: Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been updated in 3 years. It should be deleted.
enna-cvs http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14653: e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted.
php4-gtk http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=730: This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been updated in years.
qtpoveditor http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2719: Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either.
rstatd http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2557: Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005.
Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;) Smartboy really thank you man. all deleted.
-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer