[aur-general] Using git as a backend for the AUR

[Tai-Lin Chu]

mysteriously? there is no uncertainty when a maintainer decides to
remove the package. I feel any package should be fully controlled by
the maintainer. To make things less "mysterious", it is possible to
create remove history in the database.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Connor Behan <connor.behan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/03/13 05:18 PM, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
>> 1. 5M is probably an overkill. I think 1-2M is usually enough. There
>> are simply patches and PKGBUILD
>> 2. https://github.com/libgit2/php-git
>> 3. I can help if anyone needs to code in php
>>
>> side notes: why dont we have package deletion for maintainer??
>
> Because then packages that people find useful would mysteriously go
> missing. When things go missing under the current system, there is a
> publicly archived message stating when and why that was.
>