[aur-general] Leaving Arch

Felipe Tanus fotanus at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 16:01:39 EDT 2009


2009/6/12 Jozsef <jozefk at gmx.com>

> Sad to hear you are leaving. But everybody has a freedom of choice. Would
> be
> interesting to know which distro you are going to use after Arch :)
> Thanks for nice wishes. Wish you the same! Have a lot of fun!
>
> Best,
> Jozsef
>
> --
> "Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come;
> worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of
> waters." Revelation 14:7
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Christoph Zeiler <rabyte at moonblade.org
> >wrote:
>
> > This is to
> >
> > a) inform the TUs that I've switched distros and won't be able to
> > maintain my packages in the AUR anymore. Feel free to orphan all 358 of
> > them.
> >
> > b) say "Thank you!" to everybody who notified me of outdated packages,
> > sent suggestions and/or patches or helped otherwise.
> >
> > c) give reasons for leaving: My mind is on things other than
> > bleeding-edge and system-tinkering. Over time I also became dissatisfied
> > with the official way of handling source packages. IMO Arch could be
> > great at  both source and binary, but the source part doesn't get enough
> > love. Why not add source support for pacman? Oh, and why not compress
> > packages with LZMA?
> >
> > d) wish every Arch user all the best and lots of fun with his/her/its
> > distro of choice!
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Christoph Zeiler aka rabyte aka Moonborn
> >
>

Be happy in your other distro, and thanks for all the packages :)
i can imagine, by you comment, that is gentoo, right? :)



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