Dan McGee wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat 2008-02-23 11:10 , Allan McRae wrote:
Hi,
I've put a pacman-contrib package into AUR. Will probably move into community in the near future.
At the moment it contains pacsearch, pacdiff and vim PKGBUILD syntax files.
I actually like the idea of re-pacman but it needs work before I will include it. I could find no colour pacman scripts that pacsearch is not a replacement for. I'm holding out on including anything to do with repo cleaning on a decision on what will happen in pacman or someone who uses such a script to submit it to git...
FYI there are other useful user created pacman related scripts, in the "pactools" ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5907 ) package in the AUR. Maybe you want to merge the two packages if you move it to [community] (or maybe not! :), it even has a bunch of votes.
I don't want to speak for Allan, but this is a "pacman-contrib" package, which comes straight from the naming of the contrib/ dir in the pacman source. I would guess his intention is to have this as the only source of scripts and tools, and anything he wants in the package should be submitted to the pacman-dev ML for inclusion in this contrib directory. The tools here tend to have a higher level of scrutiny and visibility than the tools you mentioned.
That was my exact thinking. I would be uneasy including the "cage" scripts from that package and I'm sure "pt-orphans" is just "pacman -Qtd"... Anyway, I will have a proper look at those and encourage submission of potentially useful ones. Allan