[aur-general] Adoptable AUR packages

Ronald van Haren pressh at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 11:47:48 EDT 2009


On 4/6/09, Ashok Gautham <scriptdevil.arch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Imanol Celaya <
> ornitorrincos at archlinux-es.org> wrote:
>
>> doesn't the orphan search function in AUR do the same and automated?
>
>
> That is exactly my point. Orphan search gives you even packages that have
> been
> orphaned because the packages are not needed any more. In fact such packages
> are the majority.
>
> ---
> Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham
>

Instead of inventing a new way of sorting orphan packages it would be
best to put the/'a lot of' effort in cleaning up the current list.
Packages that should not be there should be removed.

Ronald


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