[aur-general] TU application from graysky

[member graysky]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
>>2) To claim that you're saving your precious SSD "unnecessary writes" is
>>advanced silliness. Recent controllers don't have nearly the same
>>problems early SSDs had.
>
> Phrases such as "advanced silliness" have no place in a serious technical
> discussion and only ratchet up tensions. Please avoid them.
>
> I expect that there are many older SSDs out there (although that is debatable
> as early adopters of SSDs are likely people who update often, but maybe not).
> Even if you have a newer SSD that will likely never reach its read-write death,
> some people simply like knowing that they are squeezing everything they can out
> of their disks. Call them whatever name you want, but please realize that
> simply because you see no value in something it does not follow that the thing
> must have no value. Given the popularity of these apps there are clearly users
> who think differently than you do.

Well put, Xyne.

Actually, I am glad that Dave brought this up, because the discussion
I quoted above reminded me to mention some additional experience I
have recently gained in the topic of packaging: interest in psd from
the Ubuntu community and actually a lack of active maintenance there
caused me to take on maintaining an Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint deb
myself which I host out of my launchpad repo
(https://launchpad.net/~graysky).  I checked the stats, and v5.28-1
has over 1,500 downloads which is cool:

% ppastats --release quantal --arch i386 graysky utils
Name                      Version                   Release/Arch         Count
profile-cleaner           2.01-3                    quantal/i386            82
profile-sync-daemon       5.28-1                    quantal/i386          1504

I also learned how to package it for Fedora, and learned some basic
operation of koji so that I, and others can use it on our Linux boxes
at work.  I have submitted to have psd included in the official fedora
repos which is pending approval
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912878).

In the process of learning the Debian Way and the Fedora Way for
packaging served to deepen my appreciation for makepkg/PKGBUILD files.
 So simplistic by comparison ;)