[aur-general] [AUR] Orphan all old packages flagged as out-of-date

[Thorsten Töpper]

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:13:00 +1000
Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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 I'd like to orphan all packages in AUR flagged as out-of-date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.
> 

If it really bothers people they simply request an orphanage and that's
it.

+1 for the notification idea

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