Em 10-08-2015 20:07, Damian Nowak escreveu:
I can't agree with that. If I search for something next time and it's not in AUR4, I'd go to AUR3, get the old PKGBUILD, update it, make sure it works, and then upload to AUR4 so others can use it too. Better than writing from scratch. Well,
In most cases having a PKGBUILD as a starting point surely is nice. I just think that it shouldn't be an official Archlinux thing. Also, there were a lot of bad PKGBUILD's that wouldn't serve as a starting point for anything. The main purpose of the purge was to get rid of orphan and unmaintained packages anyway. I guess that if all of the Arch users didn't needed them in more than the two months that it took to migrate AUR3 to AUR4, it is a safe bet to say that there won't be much use for them in the near future. And, if there is an unofficial archive, it's ok. But I think that Archlinux shouldn't spend resources on an official one. Cheers, Giancarlo Razzolini