[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.

alad alad at archlinux.org
Sun Feb 10 13:52:58 UTC 2019


Am 10.02.2019 um 11:24 schrieb Aniket Pradhan:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> I am Aniket Pradhan, username: major, who wrote "lsd" and initiated the
> discussion.
>
> I would like to thank everyone for their input on this matter.
>
> I agree with the others, that this IS a silly little script. I wrote it
> when I  was learning shell programming. I published it to the AUR because
> it was going to be my first package here, and I wanted to keep it simple.
>
> The reason I started the discussion was that I was not given enough time to
> decide whether to delete the package or to rename it (or if it was my
> decision or some other TUs). The reason also stated "not useful enough"
> which was very ambiguous to me.  But, I guess that is resolved now since
> "There is no such procedure to follow when deleting packages", quoted from
> Eli.
> I never wanted this to become such big an issue. I just wanted to discuss
> on the ethicality of the deletion. To be honest, I never wanted to contest
> for that name "lsd", because I know that my script is very "trivial".
>
> I would like to thank everyone, again, for participating in this discussion
> and giving your feedback. <3. (Thank you, Alad for reminding me to add an
> epilepsy warning).

Thanks for adding the warning.

Alad

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