On 21-05-23 02:05, Christian Rebischke via aur-general wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:36:55AM -0500, Derek Taylor via aur-general wrote: > > I received a notice that several of my suckless builds (dwm-distrotube-git, > > st-distrotube-git, dmenu-distrotube-git) have been deleted from the AUR due > > to being "for one person". That's certainly reasonable but these packages > > are not for one person. A lot of people use these and depend on them. > > Again, these builds are not for one person. What can be done about this? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > DT > > Hi Derek, > > I just had a glimpse on your software and I see why it got mass-removed. > Maybe you shouldn't describe the packages as: > > "My heavily-patched customized build of the Suckless simple terminal (st)." > "My heavily-patched and customized build of the Suckless dmenu run launcher." > > I can only speculate, but did you use the same package description in > the AUR? > > My suggestion to solve this: give the packages a new name and make clear > that the software is a fork and something different. > > For example: > > pkgname: dst > description: "dst (Derek's ST) is a suckless st inspired terminal with > additional features" A lot of the suckless packages being removed were removed by me and I've had a few emails from affected people.
Just to reiterate, upstream suckless says that packaging their software is pointless[0], because of how the software configuration is tightly coupled with compiling. The majority of these packages were for a single person, therefore are not suitable to be placed on the AUR. The AUR isn't meant for people to place dotfiles and configuration snippets as per the submission guidelines[1]. [0]: https://dwm.suckless.org [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission -- George Rawlinson
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