[aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

[Heiko Baums]

Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:12:23 +0100
schrieb Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org>:

> Man you know that is a draft. I don't remember who wants to adopt
> squashfs- tools now, but surely a TU want because it has been moved
> to [community] recently.

Man, you know that you have removed most of the packages from your
"draft" from [extra].

And I need to install three times as many packages from AUR as I needed
three years ago just because they have been removed from the repos to
AUR.

And the repos of Arch Linux are pretty small compared to other distros
anyway. That's always mentioned as disadvantage in reviews of Arch
Linux. This is a bit compensated by AUR, but if you regularly move
important or popular packages to AUR then Arch Linux will become a
second Gentoo and for some people who want or need a binary distro
unusable.

And no, Arch Linux is not a distro from developers for developers
anymore. This may have been in the beginning or Arch Linux but is not
true anymore.

Heiko