Compared to the discontinued, experimental, barebones, alpha stage oyepa, the following actively developed application seems to be way more mature and useful for the same purpose: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tagspaces On 17 October 2023 09:40:35 GMT+02:00, notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for oyepa [2]:
I think it's better to delete this Python2 PyQt4 GUI based file organizer from 2011, which was only an experiment, not something intended for production use. It brands itself a "tagging file system emulator".
I don't think it's useful for users. In fact it seems quite cumbersome.
And it depends on discontinued, unmaintained components like PyQt4 and python2-pyinotify (whose upstream is not changed since 2014). Those two AUR packages do not follow the Arch Python package guidelines and PyPA's recommendations regarding the migration to setuptools from stdlib's deprecated distutils.
There are other tools that help users organize files better.
PyQt4 as of now is a dual Python2/Python3 package, broken on Python 3.12. But oyepa is the only mandatory consumer of either PyQt4 subpackage that seems maintained on AUR. Almost all other packages are broken, and none of them are maintained or used, so they can be delete as well. Some packages have updates to port them to Python3/Qt5. It seems PyQt4 itself can soon be retired.
AUR submission guidelines say that packages kept there should be useful for / required by more than a few people. I think there is no evidence for this being a package that qualifies.
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/oyepa/