On Tuesday 16 November 2010 12:48:03 Heiko Baums wrote: > Man, you know that you have removed most of the packages from your > "draft" from [extra]. Man, you know my list was made by 352 packages and I removed only ~180. Not every package in that list will be removed so calm down.
> And I need to install three times as many packages from AUR as I needed > three years ago just because they have been removed from the repos to > AUR. This is the third or fourth time that you repeat this. Do you think that I care about it? I already told you: if you want to add those packages, apply as TU. You are welcome. If you cannot and if you have not the time to build an updated version of a package you should think about switch distro. > And the repos of Arch Linux are pretty small compared to other distros > anyway. That's always mentioned as disadvantage in reviews of Arch > Linux. This is a bit compensated by AUR, but if you regularly move > important or popular packages to AUR then Arch Linux will become a > second Gentoo and for some people who want or need a binary distro > unusable. I don't care about comparisons with others distro. Let people use what they need, not the distro with more binaries. -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer