[aur-requests] Deletion of packages from the AUR
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on the AUR for community use. Mike
On 03/06/2018 02:58 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote:
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on the AUR for community use.
At least the former has been out of date for over a year. It may not be Unity-specific, but it is unmaintained... -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
I maintain the package and can update it in the next few days. On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:09 PM Eli Schwartz via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 03/06/2018 02:58 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote:
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on the AUR for community use.
At least the former has been out of date for over a year. It may not be Unity-specific, but it is unmaintained...
-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
I left it unmaintained due to the question of Unity 7's development when Canonical announced they were dropping Unity as a DE. It appears that Unity 7 will be community maintained, at least for the next maintenance cycle. Mike On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:10 PM Michael Healy <horsemanoffaith@gmail.com> wrote:
I maintain the package and can update it in the next few days.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:09 PM Eli Schwartz via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 03/06/2018 02:58 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote:
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on the AUR for community use.
At least the former has been out of date for over a year. It may not be Unity-specific, but it is unmaintained...
-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
Eli Schwartz via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:10 geschrieben:
On 03/06/2018 02:58 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote:
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on the AUR for community use.
At least the former has been out of date for over a year. It may not be Unity-specific, but it is unmaintained...
After the request on cmake30, I was going over a bunch of Unity stuff which were submitted to AUR but have been broken and abandoned for years. This one didn't look different to me. If you say it works outside unity, does it work with upstream lightdm too or only with lightdm-ubuntu? Alad
I have never tried to build lightdm-unity-greeter without using lightdm-ubuntu. I believe it requires the Ubuntu patches for the greeter to work correctly. lightdm-ubuntu is currently in the AUR. I maintain that package as well. On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:16 PM Alad Wenter via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
Eli Schwartz via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:10 geschrieben:
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on
On 03/06/2018 02:58 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote: the
AUR for community use.
At least the former has been out of date for over a year. It may not be Unity-specific, but it is unmaintained...
After the request on cmake30, I was going over a bunch of Unity stuff which were submitted to AUR but have been broken and abandoned for years. This one didn't look different to me. If you say it works outside unity, does it work with upstream lightdm too or only with lightdm-ubuntu?
Alad
I saw the other Unity packages in the AUR archives that you were speaking of. I believe those packages were based on an attempt to build Unity8 for Arch by Chenxiaolong. He abandoned that project quite a while ago. Mike On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:24 PM Michael Healy <horsemanoffaith@gmail.com> wrote:
I have never tried to build lightdm-unity-greeter without using lightdm-ubuntu. I believe it requires the Ubuntu patches for the greeter to work correctly. lightdm-ubuntu is currently in the AUR. I maintain that package as well.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:16 PM Alad Wenter via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
Eli Schwartz via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:10 geschrieben:
Trusted User Alad has requested deletion of lightdm-unity-greeter and unity-settings-daemon. The notes on the deletion request say that the packages specifically point to the Unity DE, which is not on the AUR. Lightdm-unity-greeter can be used outside of the Unity desktop environment. I have used Cinnamon and other DE's, but have used lightdm-unity-greeter as my chosen greeter, without Unity being fully installed. Unity-settings-daemon is a dependency of lightdm-unity-greeter, so I am asking that these packages be left on
On 03/06/2018 02:58 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote: the
AUR for community use.
At least the former has been out of date for over a year. It may not be Unity-specific, but it is unmaintained...
After the request on cmake30, I was going over a bunch of Unity stuff which were submitted to AUR but have been broken and abandoned for years. This one didn't look different to me. If you say it works outside unity, does it work with upstream lightdm too or only with lightdm-ubuntu?
Alad
Michael Healy via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:28 geschrieben:
I saw the other Unity packages in the AUR archives that you were speaking of. I believe those packages were based on an attempt to build Unity8 for Arch by Chenxiaolong. He abandoned that project quite a while ago.
Got it, thanks for clarifying. In an ideal world people would clean up after themselves, but what can you do... Alad P.S. When using the mailing lists, please avoid top-posting.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:47 PM Alad Wenter via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
Michael Healy via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:28 geschrieben:
I saw the other Unity packages in the AUR archives that you were speaking of. I believe those packages were based on an attempt to build Unity8 for Arch by Chenxiaolong. He abandoned that project quite a while ago.
Got it, thanks for clarifying. In an ideal world people would clean up after themselves, but what can you do...
Alad
P.S. When using the mailing lists, please avoid top-posting.
Is this better? I'm not sure how to do that.
On 03/06/2018 04:39 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:47 PM Alad Wenter via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org <mailto:aur-requests@archlinux.org>> wrote:
> Michael Healy via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org <mailto:aur-requests@archlinux.org>> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:28 geschrieben: > > > I saw the other Unity packages in the AUR archives that you were speaking > of. I believe those packages were based on an attempt to build Unity8 for > Arch by Chenxiaolong. He abandoned that project quite a while ago. > Got it, thanks for clarifying. In an ideal world people would clean up after themselves, but what can you do...
Alad
P.S. When using the mailing lists, please avoid top-posting.
Is this better? I'm not sure how to do that.
Yes, although using the Gmail.com interface will always be sort of awkward as it doesn't "really" support it. You'll still end up with blank lines at the top, and you'll need to manually move the cursor to the bottom. Ideally you would use a proper email client with actual settings :p e.g. Thunderbird is nice. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 1:50 PM Eli Schwartz via aur-requests < aur-requests@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 03/06/2018 04:39 PM, Michael Healy via aur-requests wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 12:47 PM Alad Wenter via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org <mailto:aur-requests@archlinux.org>> wrote:
> Michael Healy via aur-requests <aur-requests@archlinux.org <mailto:aur-requests@archlinux.org>> hat am 6. März 2018 um 21:28 geschrieben: > > > I saw the other Unity packages in the AUR archives that you were speaking > of. I believe those packages were based on an attempt to build Unity8 for > Arch by Chenxiaolong. He abandoned that project quite a while ago. > Got it, thanks for clarifying. In an ideal world people would clean up after themselves, but what can you do...
Alad
P.S. When using the mailing lists, please avoid top-posting.
Is this better? I'm not sure how to do that.
Yes, although using the Gmail.com interface will always be sort of awkward as it doesn't "really" support it. You'll still end up with blank lines at the top, and you'll need to manually move the cursor to the bottom.
Ideally you would use a proper email client with actual settings :p e.g. Thunderbird is nice.
-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
This is on my cell phone. I use Inbox. Mike
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Alad Wenter
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Eli Schwartz
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Michael Healy