On Tuesday 16 November 2010 12:48:03 Heiko Baums wrote:
Man, you know that you have removed most of the packages from your "draft" from [extra]. Man, you know my list was made by 352 packages and I removed only ~180. Not every package in that list will be removed so calm down.
And I need to install three times as many packages from AUR as I needed three years ago just because they have been removed from the repos to AUR. This is the third or fourth time that you repeat this. Do you think that I care about it? I already told you: if you want to add those packages, apply as TU. You are welcome. If you cannot and if you have not the time to build an updated version of a package you should think about switch distro.
And the repos of Arch Linux are pretty small compared to other distros anyway. That's always mentioned as disadvantage in reviews of Arch Linux. This is a bit compensated by AUR, but if you regularly move important or popular packages to AUR then Arch Linux will become a second Gentoo and for some people who want or need a binary distro unusable. I don't care about comparisons with others distro. Let people use what they need, not the distro with more binaries.
-- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer