[aur-requests] [PRQ#33096] Deletion Request for whatismyip

[Brett Cornwall]

On 2022-03-12 03:41, Christopher Snowhill (kode54) via aur-requests wrote:
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>> On Mar 9, 2022, at 1:42 AM, notify--- via aur-requests <aur-requests at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
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>> kleintux [1] filed a deletion request for whatismyip [2]:
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>> Script is hosted in aur git. no description / upstream url. uses 3th
>> party service to get the external ip.
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>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/kleintux/
>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/whatismyip/
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>This has to use an external service, since its purpose is querying your external facing IP address, even if you're behind a NAT. They could have used ifconfig.me <http://ifconfig.me/> instead, though, since that's another service. Depends on whether they trust the permanence of the owner of that domain, versus the permanence of Amazon Web Services running their own IP query service.
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>I do agree, however, that it may be required to host this tiny script on a Github repository or a Gist on Github, rather than using the AUR to host it. Even if it is under 1 KiB.

It's so trivial and essentially a custom user script (since it includes 
cowsay) that I'd say it doesn't belong at all. Deleted.
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