[aur-general] Question about bad applications

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:36 AM, PyroPeter <abi1789 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 08/31/2010 08:17 AM, Nathan O wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue 31 Aug 2010 00:48 -0500, Nathan O wrote:
>>>
>>>> What should I do about software that won't work, not due to the fact
>>>>
>>> about
>>>
>>>> how it is packaged, but badly coded? I am finding some packages of mine
>>>>
>>> that
>>>
>>>> won't compile or run and the author(programmer) doesn't seem to be
>>>> active
>>>> anymore
>>>>
>>>
>>> Patch them if you want, orphan them if you don't.
>>>
>>> Some applications I can patch or use sed, but there are some packages
>>> that,
>>>
>> in my opinion, would require somebody that knows programming in order to
>> fix
>> the issues.
>>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> If it's a useful software someone will fork and fix it properly.
> Are you speaking about a particular software?
>
> Greetz, Peter Lustig
> --
> freenode/pyropeter                          "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."
>
Currently I can't remember which ones. I will go through once I finish
cleaning my current packages. Once I see the package name, I will remember
which ones.

Thanks