[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [aur-general] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup

[Madeye]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 16:56:46 +0300
Bogdan Ionuț <bogdan at punctweb.ro> wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 14:53, Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > # These will be moved to AUR
> > gptfdisk
> >
> > If there are no objections I'll move all them tomorrow.
> >
> 
> GPT users what should use then? parted? I like very much this app,
> and I don't think I'm the only one. Or at least move it to
> [community] and not AUR, 'cause I don't want to compile this every
> time I make a new installation.

 I would have to agree with this. Although I am in favor of keeping the
 repositories free of too much clutter, I think removing gptfdisk would 
 be a sad thing to do.
 Probably parted can be used for the same tasks, but it is IMHO a very
 user unfriendly program.

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