[aur-general] plz remove perl-set-infinite
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Thu Apr 29 05:12:31 CEST 2010
On 29/04/10 12:59, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Firmicus<Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Often it
>> seems the tool you are using is not very good at finding out whether a perl
>> package is already in the repos or not.
>
> The tool doesn't check. I have to do that by hand. I'm not aware of
> any tool that does.
pacman does... "pacman -Ss perl-set-infinite" makes it quite clear that
this package is in [community]. One of the old perl package generators
used to give a error if a package was already in the repo so it can be done.
>> Perhaps you could improve that, to
>> avoid annoying the TUs every couple of days ;)
>
> Instead of asking me not to make a mistake how about we allow authors
> to delete there own packages from AUR?
We had issues with people adopting a bunch of packages and deleting
them. So this is not going to happen.
> I suppose the final option is to make me a TU so that I can handle my
> own deletions.
So make you a TU so you can clean up your frequent mistakes... does not
sound a convincing argument! :P
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