Slim had a decent sized update about 2 weeks ago, it started supporting the normal xsession methods rather than a specific list and a variety of other things, the version before that was less than a week old. It's stable, but certainly not dead.
Regards, Justin Dray E: jus...@dray.be M: 0433348284 On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sam Stuewe <halosgh...@archlinux.info>wrote: > On 2013-10-15 13:56, Keshav Padram Amburay wrote: > >> Hi, >> rEFIt is no longer maintained upstream and its author recommends >> everyone to switch to rEFInd instead, at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ . >> So >> please delete AUR refit >> https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/refit/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refit/>package. >> >> With Best Regards, >> >> Keshav >> > > I am not a TU, so this is not an official set of logic, but if the sources > still exist (even if it has been deprecated or is no longer maintained), I > see no reason for the package to be removed unless there is a specific and > blatant security flaw. For example, SLiM is still in the official repos > despite maintenance largely being dead and many other packages being > considered preferable. > > If people would like to continue using rEFIt, despite rEFInd's > superiority, I don't see the inherent issue. > > All the best, > > -Sam >