[aur-general] Deletion Request - rEFIt
Hi, rEFIt is no longer maintained upstream and its author recommends everyone to switch to rEFInd instead, at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ . So please delete AUR refit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refit/ package. With Best Regards, Keshav
On 2013-10-15 13:56, Keshav Padram Amburay wrote:
Hi, rEFIt is no longer maintained upstream and its author recommends everyone to switch to rEFInd instead, at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ . So please delete AUR refit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refit/ package.
With Best Regards,
Keshav
I am not a TU, so this is not an official set of logic, but if the sources still exist (even if it has been deprecated or is no longer maintained), I see no reason for the package to be removed unless there is a specific and blatant security flaw. For example, SLiM is still in the official repos despite maintenance largely being dead and many other packages being considered preferable. If people would like to continue using rEFIt, despite rEFInd's superiority, I don't see the inherent issue. All the best, -Sam
Slim had a decent sized update about 2 weeks ago, it started supporting the normal xsession methods rather than a specific list and a variety of other things, the version before that was less than a week old. It's stable, but certainly not dead. Regards, Justin Dray E: justin@dray.be M: 0433348284 On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sam Stuewe <halosghost@archlinux.info>wrote:
On 2013-10-15 13:56, Keshav Padram Amburay wrote:
Hi, rEFIt is no longer maintained upstream and its author recommends everyone to switch to rEFInd instead, at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ . So please delete AUR refit https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/refit/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refit/>package.
With Best Regards,
Keshav
I am not a TU, so this is not an official set of logic, but if the sources still exist (even if it has been deprecated or is no longer maintained), I see no reason for the package to be removed unless there is a specific and blatant security flaw. For example, SLiM is still in the official repos despite maintenance largely being dead and many other packages being considered preferable.
If people would like to continue using rEFIt, despite rEFInd's superiority, I don't see the inherent issue.
All the best,
-Sam
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Justin Dray <justin@dray.be> wrote:
Slim had a decent sized update about 2 weeks ago, it started supporting the normal xsession methods rather than a specific list and a variety of other things, the version before that was less than a week old. It's stable, but certainly not dead.
Regards, Justin Dray E: justin@dray.be M: 0433348284
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sam Stuewe <halosghost@archlinux.info>wrote:
On 2013-10-15 13:56, Keshav Padram Amburay wrote:
Hi, rEFIt is no longer maintained upstream and its author recommends everyone to switch to rEFInd instead, at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ . So please delete AUR refit https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/refit/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refit/>package.
With Best Regards,
Keshav
I am not a TU, so this is not an official set of logic, but if the sources still exist (even if it has been deprecated or is no longer maintained), I see no reason for the package to be removed unless there is a specific and blatant security flaw. For example, SLiM is still in the official repos despite maintenance largely being dead and many other packages being considered preferable.
If people would like to continue using rEFIt, despite rEFInd's superiority, I don't see the inherent issue.
All the best,
-Sam
Well, in this case rEFInd is a fork of rEFIt which provides the same features and probably more, and is actively developped. I don't see why people would prefer rEFIt over rEFInd, but that is just my opinion. I would personally remove refit, but I guess it doesn't harm the AUR for now. What do other TUs think? Cheers, -- Maxime
participants (4)
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Justin Dray
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Keshav Padram Amburay
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Maxime Gauduin
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Sam Stuewe