Am Di, 4. Mai 2021 um 07:01:54 +0000 schrieb George Rawlinson via aur-general <aur-general@lists.archlinux.org>:
On 21-05-04 08:23, Fabian Bornschein via aur-general wrote:
For fcgu-keyring I have had filled a removal request, so this one was deliberate to be erased. For everything else it would be nice to know the reason for this, in case I do something essential wrong.
Thank you.
Hi Fabian,
As per my previous email; while responding to your removal request, I had a look at your other packages and noticed that a lot of them are packages shipping custom configurations.
The AUR is not meant to be a repository for personal items and as such, the packages shipping dotfiles were deleted. Please read the AUR submission guidelines, found here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines
-- George Rawlinson
Hi George, it looks like GMail doesn't like EMails. I've got the deletion notification but no other EMail. (Not even in spam). Strange, but back to topic. Yes, many of them where preconfigurations of some sort, but not in a "specific for me system"-way, but kept generic so everyone can use them. In fact, I barely use any of them myself, but kept them up because someone asked me to keep them around. Lets go through them one by one * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/amdgpu-experimental/ Was one of the packages I was asked to keep up, because it's easy access to amdgpu-experimental features, while this can be a struggle to setup manually. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/archlinux-wallpapers-mixbranding/ Is a set of wallpapers. I honestly don't know why this was removed, as it's not even a configuration thing, but (very silly) wallpapers. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/blacklist-hw-watchdog/ * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/blacklist_pcspkr/ Are both module blacklist. the later one is essentially the same as https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nobeep/ , but was uploaded in, uhm 2017?. Not specific for my systems as I dont have any beeper. The other one was used by me, still not specific only for only my system. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/fabiscafe-keyring/ Is a pubkey, that is important to have signed packages active for our GNOME-unstable repo: see https://gitlab.com/fabis_cafe/gnome-unstable, and in future maybe also gnome-oldstable, see: https://gitlab.com/fabis_cafe/gnome-oldstable I dont know for sure if this was OK to be in the AUR, but since https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=keyring&outdated=&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&do_Search=Go archlinuxarm,32, even chaotic-aur and a lot more are there, I never saw a problem with that one. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/preconf-cups-desktop/ Is a preconfiguration that enabled and installed printer support for desktops. Also not specific for me, just easy access. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/preconf-intel-nvidia-prime-render-offloadi... Where a lot of configuration to set up prime-offloading with working powermanagement on newer optimus-ready systems. I actually only bought a GT 710 to write this package in order to help people set this up. Not specific for me. (because AMD ftw :D) * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/preconf-sudo-wheel/ This just creates the sudo configuration for wheel users in /etc/sudoers.d. I won't lie, this was made because I'm lazy. I dont know if this is actually used by anyone else. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/systemd-boot-esp-sync/ This one syncs /boot to /efi/$machine-id either via systemd.path or via alpm hook. I've written this in a generic form, so others can use (and I know at least 2 people who use it in addition of myself). * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/game-devices-udev/ This one adds udev rules for a lot of gaming controllers who might otherwise not work on your system. It's not really a preconfiguration. So also in here I dont understand why this was removed at all. * https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/unlock-pacman/ This one just removes to pacman-lock at startup, in case it's there. None of them are in my opinion really specialized or specific for me alone and almost all of them add something of value to a users system. I can't find something that preconfigurations, wallpapers, udev-rules or "keyrings" are not allowed on the AUR either in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines. So I'm a pretty shocked by that move.