[aur-general] [AUR] Orphan all old packages flagged as out-of-date

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jun 8 00:13:00 EDT 2011


On 08/06/11 14:01, Thorsten Töpper wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 05:05:22 +0800
> Ray Rashif<schiv at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 7 June 2011 18:14, Andrea Scarpino<andrea at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>> Hi TUs,
>>> I'd like to orphan all packages in AUR flagged as out-of-date
>>> before February 2011 (for example, I think 3 months are enough).
>>
>> I find 3 months are not enough (for a busy person). 6 is a nicer
>> number, i.e half a year, plenty of time for short bursts of free time
>> (for a busy person).
>
> I agree, 3 months is a too short span of time.
>

Seriously?  If someone can not find the time to update a package in 3 
months, there will be other people who can do a better job.  If we 
waited 6 months for updates, we might as well be using Ubunutu.




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