[aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

David Runge dave at sleepmap.de
Sat Jan 26 10:23:37 UTC 2019


On 2019-01-26 08:01:46 (+0100), Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote:
> Not too long after I became TU I deleted something of ~2000 packages,
> based on similar "criteria" and after seeing no "objections" on IRC
> after a while. After the deed was done I got emails, angry shouting on
> IRC and complaints for the following 6 months on BBS and other places. 
"they took our packages" *rantyface* *screaming*

> tl;dr use requests like everyone else, or patch aurweb to have "batch requests"
Yes, please requests! This way stuff at least gets to the mailing list
and is somewhat documented.

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