I guess the rationale is that no one is interested enough on uploading them after they have been dropped from community. About why they have been dropped, see [ 1 ], [ 2 ] and [ 3 ], several threads on arch-dev-public ( sorted by date) [ 1 ] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025173.htm... [ 2 ] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025192.htm... [ 3 ] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025260.htm... On 31 July 2013 19:25, Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> wrote:

Compiz was removed from the repos

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/024956.html but appeared in the AUR a good while later - 2013-07-11 , even though Allan inquired about it in late May:

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/025022.html

Recently ndiswrapper and cdfs have been removed from the repos but I don't see them in the AUR. What is the rationale for this? Are the other ndiswrapper / cdfs packages that are already in the AUR deemed sufficient? Is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fuse-cdfs-git/ the same as 'cdfs' package that used to be in the repos? A word about why the package has been dropped .e.g 'doesn't work with linux 3.10 kernel' would be helpful. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusxmms/ has a comment that says 'removed from community'. Mentioning https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36229 would be helpful.