[aur-general] pkgs that are in community and have "lost" tar.gz in unsupported.

hollunder at gmx.at hollunder at gmx.at
Mon Feb 23 05:16:30 EST 2009


On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:53:49 -0200
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> Loui Chang wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:28:42PM -0200, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
> > wrote: 
> >> I do not know if this is intentional, but when in doubt I will let
> >> you know. I did a comparison of the existence of packages that are
> >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/{pkgname}/ and also in
> >> community/{category}/{pkgname}.
> >> The list[#1] ({date} {pkgname})  have 1282 entries, and are sorted
> >> by date. (2005-2009). They may be removed, I do not know. I hope
> >> this will be helpful.
> >>     
> >
> > Hmm! Nice catch. Yep they may be removed. I ought to update the
> > clean up script for this. Thanks for the notice. 
> >   
> Are welcomed :)
> 
> There are other list but this is from extra vs unsupported, although
> this is bit delicate.
> 
> sweep                 (very old in AUR, 2006)

I'm for deletion, the one in extra is the latest, and afaik we
shouldn't have stuff in AUR with the same name anyway. If there is a new
version that extra doesn't pick up fast enough someone will just make
another AUR package.
It's not like we (audio users) wouldn't need to do that anyway.

Philipp


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