On Wednesday 10 November 2010 12:43:28 Heiko Baums wrote:
You should really think about that. There are many of the most important, oldest and best known packages in this list like dia, ding, xboard, eboard, epdfview, slmodem etc.
In other words, your list is likely the half of the distro.
If you would put all of them to AUR then you could give up Arch Linux, because then it has almost no advantage over Gentoo, that is, then will Arch Linux become a second Gentoo, because the users will have to compile a lot of (most of the) important packages manually.
And the reason why I switched from Gentoo to Arch Linux about 3 or 4 years ago after using Gentoo for about 6 years was that I was sick of compiling everything and that Arch Linux was a binary distribution.
So if you would really do this clean up and move all these packages to AUR then I could and most likely would switch back to Gentoo.
So really, please, reconsider your idea of doing this massive and pointless cleanup. If you read with attention my mail, you read:
"If some DEV wants to keep a package simply cross it out (adoption is not required, but it would be nice) or reply to this mail." This means that if _any_ DEV consider a package important and he thinks that should be kept in [extra], he only have to cross it out. Also, if you look at that wiki page, ours TUs want to maintain more of them in [community]. So there is no reasons to say that we will became a second Gentoo. Cheers -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer