Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:54:56 schrieb Thomas Dziedzic:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 15/07/10 08:49, Michael Düll (akurei) wrote:
Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:41:13 schrieb Thomas Dziedzic:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Thomas Dziedzic<gostrc@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Düll (akurei)<mail@akurei.org>
wrote:
Am Mittwoch 14 Juli 2010, 23:10:07 schrieb Ionuț Bîru: > On 07/14/2010 11:54 PM, Michael Düll (akurei) wrote: >> Hello fellow Archers! >> >> I wonder why there's no option to delete your own package from AUR. >> >> Some users pointed out, that there once was too much abusive >> behaviour. I can't think of a way how this could be abused, if you >> are only allowed to delete your _own_ uploaded packages, except >> one: If there's many users (and OTHER packages from AUR that rely >> on that perticular package [eg bin32-wine relies on lib32-libldap >> from AUR]), and you delete it, thus breaking dependencies. >> My proposal is: Allow people to delete their own AUR packages if a) >> No other AUR package depends on it and b) if there's less than 10 >> people "using" it (aurvote). This way it would be easy to delete a >> faulty package without first asking on the list and it would >> hopefully encourage more people to try and put PKGBUILDS on AUR. >> >> akurei > > we had in the past a problem with an user who deleted a lot of > packages. he did that by adopting orphaned packages
Okay, so let's introduce a "barrier": Let one delete packages like I said (he owns them, no other package relies on it, no more than 10 aurvotes) _plus_ let one delete packages, that he owns for _more than three months_. This way there's less chance that someboy "goes amok". Additionally there could be an "Trusted-User-Only Undelete" feature for a few weeks.
akurei
I guess you could open this as a feature request if you really want to, the problem I see is that you have to make sure the system can't be abused. Also, someone has to code it up, and I haven't really seen much interest in the aur website at all. Its just what I think atm.
Also, this seems like more work then just asking for a tu to check out a package and delete it.
I could take over this task. Somehow (if there's PHP and SQL). I am merely asking if it would be accepted by the Archers ;)
I think it would be better to just have a "delete request" button which would require a note why the package needs deleted so that the TUs could have a list they can easily access and work through.
Allan
+1 for this idea
I like this idea, too.