Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Isaac Dupree

On 11/13/10 15:44, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

On Saturday 13 November 2010 14:46:30 Andrea Scarpino wrote:

Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352 three
days ago). 62 will be moved to [community]. 127 to AUR.

I didn't expect this success. I can start moving them today if you agree.

Full lists:

COMMUNITY
twinkle...
/COMMUNITY

AUR
commoncpp2...
libzrtpcpp...
/AUR


Twinkle depends on commoncpp2 and libzrtpcpp, so the latter have to be 
in at least [community] in order for Twinkle to be.


-Isaac


Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Isaac Dupree
m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org wrote:
 On 11/13/10 15:44, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

 On Saturday 13 November 2010 14:46:30 Andrea Scarpino wrote:

 Nice, today we have 291 orphans packages in [extra] (they were 352 three
 days ago). 62 will be moved to [community]. 127 to AUR.

 I didn't expect this success. I can start moving them today if you agree.

 Full lists:

 COMMUNITY
 twinkle...
 /COMMUNITY

 AUR
 commoncpp2...
 libzrtpcpp...
 /AUR

 Twinkle depends on commoncpp2 and libzrtpcpp, so the latter have to be in at
 least [community] in order for Twinkle to be.

 -Isaac


Submit a bug report if it hasn't been done already.


Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Isaac Dupree

On 11/16/10 03:27, Eric Bélanger wrote:

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Isaac Dupree
m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org  wrote:

Twinkle depends on commoncpp2 and libzrtpcpp, so the latter have to be in at
least [community] in order for Twinkle to be.

-Isaac



Submit a bug report if it hasn't been done already.


OK, hopefully I did it correctly.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21712

-Isaac



[aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Scarpino
Hi TUs,
we are here again. After the success with [extra] (DEVs adopted ~80 packages, 
TUs ~60), I want to reduce the number of orphans packages in [community]. 
Actually, they are 84 (82, I just adopted two...).

The list is here[1]. Simply cross out the package which you want to maintain 
in [community]. Adoption is not required, but would be nice.
Packages will be moved to AUR this Saturday 20th.

Thanks

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup

-- 
Andrea Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:34:11 +0100
schrieb Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org:

 Hi TUs,
 we are here again. After the success with [extra] (DEVs adopted ~80
 packages, TUs ~60), I want to reduce the number of orphans packages
 in [community]. Actually, they are 84 (82, I just adopted two...).
 
 The list is here[1]. Simply cross out the package which you want to
 maintain in [community]. Adoption is not required, but would be nice.
 Packages will be moved to AUR this Saturday 20th.
 
 Thanks
 
 [1]
 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup

squashfs-tools

What have you told me about that when you have moved this from [extra]
to [community]?

Now it shall be moved to AUR? And why was it moved to [community] if it
is an orphan there? And isn't this needed to building LiveCDs including
the Arch Linux installation CDs?

You really should think about that.

Heiko


[aur-general] Delete request

2010-11-16 Thread Dan Vrátil

Please remove akonadi-svn [1]. It is replaced by akonadi-git [2] now.

Thanks

[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16891
[2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43632

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Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 12:03:14 Heiko Baums wrote:
 squashfs-tools
 
 What have you told me about that when you have moved this from [extra]
 to [community]?
 
 Now it shall be moved to AUR? And why was it moved to [community] if it
 is an orphan there? And isn't this needed to building LiveCDs including
 the Arch Linux installation CDs?
Man you know that is a draft. I don't remember who wants to adopt squashfs-
tools now, but surely a TU want because it has been moved to [community] 
recently.

-- 
Andrea Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer


Re: [aur-general] Delete request

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 12:09:21 Dan Vrátil wrote:
 Please remove akonadi-svn [1]. It is replaced by akonadi-git [2] now.
Done. Thanks

-- 
Andrea Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer


[aur-general] Delete Request

2010-11-16 Thread Ivo Senner
Well, please remove qutim-otr-git 
(http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43571). I've replaced it by 
qutim-plugin-otr-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43633) to 
keep the naming convention used by other qutim plugins rather then just 
use the git-name ;)


Cheers,



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:12:23 +0100
schrieb Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org:

 Man you know that is a draft. I don't remember who wants to adopt
 squashfs- tools now, but surely a TU want because it has been moved
 to [community] recently.

Man, you know that you have removed most of the packages from your
draft from [extra].

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.

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.

And no, Arch Linux is not a distro from developers for developers
anymore. This may have been in the beginning or Arch Linux but is not
true anymore.

Heiko


Re: [aur-general] Delete Request

2010-11-16 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 16/11/10 13:33, Ivo Senner wrote:
 Well, please remove qutim-otr-git
 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43571). I've replaced it by
 qutim-plugin-otr-git (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43633) to
 keep the naming convention used by other qutim plugins rather then just
 use the git-name ;)

Le done.


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Allan McRae

On 16/11/10 21:48, Heiko Baums wrote:

And no, Arch Linux is not a distro from developers for developers
anymore. This may have been in the beginning or Arch Linux but is not
true anymore.


It is true as long as the developers say it is true.  Just because I 
tell GM their car is an aeroplane does not mean they will start flying.


Allan



[aur-general] why the latex-beamer package?

2010-11-16 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello,

A latex-beamer package seems to have entered [community] recently. Is
that an error ? The beamer package for LaTeX is already included in
texlive-core, and moreover this package seems to depend on tetex (!)
and installs files in the middle of the texlive tree.

Regards,
  Rémy.


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:54:23 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org:

 It is true as long as the developers say it is true.  Just because I 
 tell GM their car is an aeroplane does not mean they will start
 flying.

Wrong. It is true as soon as a distro becomes more and more popular.
And this is the case for Arch Linux. As long as a distro is unknown and
only used by a few people, mainly its developers, this distro may only
be from the devs for the devs. But as soon as it is mentioned together
with and equivalent to the other big distros and gets more popular this
is not true anymore independent from what a single developer says.

Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the
download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the
public. Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is
only meant to be used by us developers. Or something like this. Maybe
a bit exaggerated.

Heiko


Re: [aur-general] why the latex-beamer package?

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 12:59:56 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
 A latex-beamer package seems to have entered [community] recently. Is
 that an error ? The beamer package for LaTeX is already included in
 texlive-core, and moreover this package seems to depend on tetex (!)
 and installs files in the middle of the texlive tree.
Filed a bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21714

-- 
Andrea Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Allan McRae

On 16/11/10 22:06, Heiko Baums wrote:

Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:54:23 +1000
schrieb Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org:


It is true as long as the developers say it is true.  Just because I
tell GM their car is an aeroplane does not mean they will start
flying.


Wrong.


Really, cars will start flying if we just tell the manufactures it is 
so?  Because I have been waiting for that for a long time...



It is true as soon as a distro becomes more and more popular.
And this is the case for Arch Linux. As long as a distro is unknown and
only used by a few people, mainly its developers, this distro may only
be from the devs for the devs. But as soon as it is mentioned together
with and equivalent to the other big distros and gets more popular this
is not true anymore independent from what a single developer says.


But what actually makes you think that you can expect anything from the 
distro apart from whatever the developers decide?  Just because people 
use the distribution does not mean their opinions count for anything. 
In fact, the opinions of 99% of the users of this distro do not count 
for anything because they contribute nothing towards the distribution.


Now, if someone wants to pay me and others to develop the distro, then 
their opinions will count.  Otherwise, I am working for free and so I 
am king of what I decide to do.



Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the
download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the
public. Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is
only meant to be used by us developers. Or something like this. Maybe
a bit exaggerated.


Slightly exaggerated.  But perhaps we do need that to keep people from 
forming such unfounded ideas about their opinions counting towards 
anything around here.


Allan


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Scarpino
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


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 16 Nov 2010 13:06 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
 Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:54:23 +1000
 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org:
 
  It is true as long as the developers say it is true.  Just because I 
  tell GM their car is an aeroplane does not mean they will start
  flying.
 
 Wrong. It is true as soon as a distro becomes more and more popular.
 And this is the case for Arch Linux. As long as a distro is unknown and
 only used by a few people, mainly its developers, this distro may only
 be from the devs for the devs. But as soon as it is mentioned together
 with and equivalent to the other big distros and gets more popular this
 is not true anymore independent from what a single developer says.
 
 Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the
 download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the
 public. Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is
 only meant to be used by us developers. Or something like this. Maybe
 a bit exaggerated.

You're right. A lot of open source software does have that no guarantee,
no liability disclaimer. Maybe it should be made more obvious.

Anyways, Arch Linux isn't bound by any unwritten or unspoken contracts
saying that it must deliver a certain level of support after reaching a
certain popularity. If you want that support, then go a head and
contribute the resources. I really don't forsee the distro signing any
support contracts though.



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:36:59 -0500
schrieb Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com:

 You're right. A lot of open source software does have that no
 guarantee, no liability disclaimer. Maybe it should be made more
 obvious.
 
 Anyways, Arch Linux isn't bound by any unwritten or unspoken contracts
 saying that it must deliver a certain level of support after reaching
 a certain popularity. If you want that support, then go a head and
 contribute the resources. I really don't forsee the distro signing any
 support contracts though.

I'm not talking about contracts. But regardless of any contracts
developers shouldn't ignore user's comments and opinions.

I'm just talking about such an ignorant and sometimes arrogant
behaviour of some devs which is seen sometimes in flyspray and on the
mailing list. This makes using a distro and contributing to a distro
no fun. And I haven't seen such an ignorance in other distros, yet.

That's the point.

Heiko


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:25:34 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org:

 Really, cars will start flying if we just tell the manufactures it is 
 so?  Because I have been waiting for that for a long time...

Do you always compare apples and oranges?

 But what actually makes you think that you can expect anything from
 the distro apart from whatever the developers decide?

I generally don't expect anything. And I really respect the voluntary
work. And I guess you haven't read many/any overbearing claims from me.

But I expect from a developer that he doesn't remove popular packages
inconsiderately from the repos. (Otherwise don't call Arch Linux a
binary distro.) I expect from a developer that he uses his brain. Sorry
for this wording.

And I expect from a developer that he isn't arrogant and ignorant to
users and that he listens to the user's opinion and respects their
opinions.

  Just because
 people use the distribution does not mean their opinions count for
 anything. In fact, the opinions of 99% of the users of this distro
 do not count for anything because they contribute nothing towards the
 distribution.

Have you thought of people who are not able to program or to write
documentations or the like? Have you thought of people who just use
their computers as an electronic typewriter or for looking for e-mails
etc.?

Do you really expect every usual computer user to learn a programming
language?

Btw., I'm already maintaining some AUR packages, worked on a wiki page
for one of these packages. So don't tell me I wouldn't contribute
anything.

 Now, if someone wants to pay me and others to develop the distro,
 then their opinions will count.  Otherwise, I am working for free
 and so I am king of what I decide to do.

You may decide what to do. But you should take the user's opinions or
wishes into account.

 Slightly exaggerated.  But perhaps we do need that to keep people
 from forming such unfounded ideas about their opinions counting
 towards anything around here.

Really, these are not unfounded ideas.

And you and some other devs (thankfully not all of them) should reflect
about your ignorance.

Heiko


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
 On 16/11/10 22:06, Heiko Baums wrote:
  Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the
  download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the
  public. Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is
  only meant to be used by us developers. Or something like this. Maybe
  a bit exaggerated.
 
 Slightly exaggerated.  But perhaps we do need that to keep people from 
 forming such unfounded ideas about their opinions counting towards 
 anything around here.
 
 Allan

I thought this idea of Heiko's was a great idea, myself. In a fit of
inspiration, here's a suggestion. This would be placed after the last
sentence of the 2nd paragraph in the 3-paragraph description.

This community involvement allows developers to focus on what's most
important to them in the knowledge that the community will provide high
quality packages for everything else.

Just a draft, doesn't really express everything yet. Should I open a
bug-report?

And Heiko, I'm not sure why you're making a big fuss over these
packages. Its not even much harder to work from the AUR. Comparisons to
Gentoo are ridiculous. I've got 75 packages from the AUR currently, and
I don't spend hours a day compiling. The longest package to compile is
probably samba4 at 20 minutes, followed by the kernel at 10 minutes
(optimized), everything else tops out at 1-2 minutes. Go have a cup of
coffee, and consider the difference to the hours and hours you'd have
spent compiling world on Gentoo.



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Sergej Pupykin

Hi,

I think there is no need to move orphaned package to AUR until it
works and does not have critical/security bugs.


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Allan McRae

On 17/11/10 00:53, Heiko Baums wrote:

Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:34:51 +1000
schrieb Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org:


There is a difference between ignorance and not giving a shit...


Right, giving a shit is also arrogant.



So now you are equating arrogant and ignorant?   And did you miss a 
not there?  Because giving a shit is rarely arrogant unless you take 
it too an extreme.


In conclusion, you make very poor arguments with logical fallacies 
everywhere.  No wonder you never seem to get your way.


Allan
(the ever pedantic bastard...)


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Ionuț Bîru

On 11/16/2010 05:07 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

On 17/11/10 00:53, Heiko Baums wrote:

Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:34:51 +1000
schrieb Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org:


There is a difference between ignorance and not giving a shit...


Right, giving a shit is also arrogant.



So now you are equating arrogant and ignorant? And did you miss a not
there? Because giving a shit is rarely arrogant unless you take it too
an extreme.

In conclusion, you make very poor arguments with logical fallacies
everywhere. No wonder you never seem to get your way.

Allan
(the ever pedantic bastard...)


GET A ROOM

--
Ionuț


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Heiko Baums's message of 2010-11-16 12:48:03 +0100:
 Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:12:23 +0100
 schrieb Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org:
 
  Man you know that is a draft. I don't remember who wants to adopt
  squashfs- tools now, but surely a TU want because it has been moved
  to [community] recently.
 
 Man, you know that you have removed most of the packages from your
 draft from [extra].
 
 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.
 
 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.

The problem with Arch becoming a second gentoo is that it would be a far
worse gentoo. AUR isn't exactly convenient. Sure there are helper
programs, but each one I tried buggy or lacking. I doubt maintaining
source packages in gentoo is as much a PITA as it is in Arch. It's less
a PITA in Arch than in binary distros, but still only really usable as
long as Arch is mainly a binary distro.

My point in short:
Arch is great as long most packages you need are binaries and only some
are from source.
If Arch requires you to build lots of packages from source it's the
worst of both worlds.

 And no, Arch Linux is not a distro from developers for developers
 anymore. This may have been in the beginning or Arch Linux but is not
 true anymore.
 
 Heiko



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Heiko Baums's message of 2010-11-16 15:02:19 +0100:
 Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:27:50 +0800
 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com:
 
  I thought this idea of Heiko's was a great idea, myself. In a fit of
  inspiration, here's a suggestion. This would be placed after the last
  sentence of the 2nd paragraph in the 3-paragraph description.
  
  This community involvement allows developers to focus on what's most
  important to them in the knowledge that the community will provide
  high quality packages for everything else.
 
 Maybe there should be added that Arch Linux is only a distro from its
 devs for its devs and not from the community for the community.
 
 I wish you wouldn't add such a paragraph. Instead the ignorance of some
 devs should be removed. That was the better way.
 
  And Heiko, I'm not sure why you're making a big fuss over these
  packages. Its not even much harder to work from the AUR. Comparisons
  to Gentoo are ridiculous. I've got 75 packages from the AUR
  currently, and I don't spend hours a day compiling. The longest
  package to compile is probably samba4 at 20 minutes, followed by the
  kernel at 10 minutes (optimized), everything else tops out at 1-2
  minutes. Go have a cup of coffee, and consider the difference to the
  hours and hours you'd have spent compiling world on Gentoo.
 
 I already used Gentoo for 6 years. So I know what that compiling means.
 That's why I was looking for a binary distro in the style of Gentoo.
 That's why I came to Arch Linux 3 or 4 years ago.
 
 And the more small packages need to be compiled from AUR the more time
 it takes compiling them. Many a little makes a mickle.

It's not at all about compile times IMHO but about the effort necessary
to keeping source packages up-to-date. Doing this manually would be a
major PITA for even a relatively small number of packages. AUR helpers
like slurpy help a bit, but the required effort is still significantly
higher than with binary packages. How much effort it requires depends
IMHO almost entirely on the number of packages.

JFYI I currently maintain 89 AUR packages and have probably about 180
AUR packages from other maintainers installed. There is does mean effort,
believe me or not.

 My main problems are this mass cleanup and the ignorant responses I get
 from some devs to such remarks or to some bug reports etc.
 
 That's why I make such a fuss.
 
 Heiko
 



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 16 November 2010 15:21, Sergej Pupykin m...@sergej.pp.ru wrote:

 Hi,

 I think there is no need to move orphaned package to AUR until it
 works and does not have critical/security bugs.


+1. Why remove working packages?


[aur-general] delete package

2010-11-16 Thread Joao Cordeiro
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737

Maintainer asked for it. Also,  theres this package to replace it:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910


Thanks in advance
Joao Cordeiro


Re: [aur-general] delete package

2010-11-16 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737

 Maintainer asked for it. Also,  theres this package to replace it:
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910

Removed, thanks.


Re: [aur-general] delete package

2010-11-16 Thread Cédric Girard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com wrote:

 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737

 Maintainer asked for it. Also,  theres this package to replace it:
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910


 Thanks in advance
 Joao Cordeiro



Please add the name of the package(s) when you request deletion. Else it's
hard to know which package has been deleted.

-- 
Cédric Girard


Re: [aur-general] delete package

2010-11-16 Thread Joao Cordeiro
Will do, sorry.

2010/11/16 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com

 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737
 
  Maintainer asked for it. Also,  theres this package to replace it:
  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910
 
 
  Thanks in advance
  Joao Cordeiro
 


 Please add the name of the package(s) when you request deletion. Else it's
 hard to know which package has been deleted.

 --
 Cédric Girard



Re: [aur-general] delete package

2010-11-16 Thread Joao Cordeiro
This one was adeskbar-archbang BTW.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com wrote:

 Will do, sorry.

 2010/11/16 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com

 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737
 
  Maintainer asked for it. Also,  theres this package to replace it:
  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910
 
 
  Thanks in advance
  Joao Cordeiro
 


 Please add the name of the package(s) when you request deletion. Else it's
 hard to know which package has been deleted.

 --
 Cédric Girard





Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:08 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
 My point in short:
 Arch is great as long most packages you need are binaries and only some
 are from source.
 If Arch requires you to build lots of packages from source it's the
 worst of both worlds.

Have you seen the list of software getting moved? I've only seen one
person describe them collectively as 'many important' packages. Almost
none of which I've heard of before, of course

This thread started with the assertion that 'many important' packages
are getting moved to the AUR. I believe this assertion to be false, as,
obviously, do the devs. Historically from reading [arch-dev-public] the
devs have been careful to continue maintaining packages none of them use
if its seen as crucial to a large majority of users. None of the
packages being moved fit these criteria. At all.



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:27 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
 On 16 November 2010 15:21, Sergej Pupykin m...@sergej.pp.ru wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  I think there is no need to move orphaned package to AUR until it
  works and does not have critical/security bugs.
 
 
 +1. Why remove working packages?

If unmaintained, then why not let someone who actually uses the package
maintain it?

Its not like the packages are gone forever. The exact same PKGBUILDs are
now on the AUR, so you can still use the packages. Or update them if
you're interested. The only 'loss' is to those who don't have a package
installed, they'd now have to install something from the AUR. Big deal.



Re: [aur-general] delete package

2010-11-16 Thread Cédric Girard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com wrote:

 This one was adeskbar-archbang BTW.

 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Will do, sorry.
 
  2010/11/16 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com
 
  On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Joao Cordeiro jlcorde...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37737
  
   Maintainer asked for it. Also,  theres this package to replace it:
   http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26910
  
  
   Thanks in advance
   Joao Cordeiro
  
 
 
  Please add the name of the package(s) when you request deletion. Else
 it's
  hard to know which package has been deleted.
 
  --
  Cédric Girard
 
 
 


Thanks.

-- 
Cédric Girard


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:15:44 +0800,
Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:27 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
  On 16 November 2010 15:21, Sergej Pupykin m...@sergej.pp.ru wrote:
  
   Hi,
  
   I think there is no need to move orphaned package to AUR until it
   works and does not have critical/security bugs.
  
 
  +1. Why remove working packages?

 If unmaintained, then why not let someone who actually uses the package
 maintain it?


I prefer working binary out-of-date package than up-to-date which
should be compiled from AUR.



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 17:51:44 Sergej Pupykin wrote:
 I prefer working binary out-of-date package than up-to-date which
 should be compiled from AUR.
An up-to-date package includes upstream fixes, so I prefer an up-to-date 
PKGBUILD from AUR.

-- 
Andrea Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer


Re: [aur-general] Who wants a cloak on IRC?

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Lewis
 A cloak is what I request.
What I request a cloak is.
   A request is what I cloak.
  I request what is a cloak.
 me too.
too me, please.

:-)


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:35 +0100,
Andrea Scarpino wrote:
 
 On Tuesday 16 November 2010 17:51:44 Sergej Pupykin wrote:
  I prefer working binary out-of-date package than up-to-date which
  should be compiled from AUR.
 An up-to-date package includes upstream fixes, so I prefer an up-to-date 
 PKGBUILD from AUR.

I mean only well working packages, so no critical fixes needed.


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-11-16 17:13:47 +0100:
 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:08 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
  My point in short:
  Arch is great as long most packages you need are binaries and only some
  are from source.
  If Arch requires you to build lots of packages from source it's the
  worst of both worlds.
 
 Have you seen the list of software getting moved? I've only seen one
 person describe them collectively as 'many important' packages. Almost
 none of which I've heard of before, of course
 
 This thread started with the assertion that 'many important' packages
 are getting moved to the AUR. I believe this assertion to be false, as,
 obviously, do the devs. Historically from reading [arch-dev-public] the
 devs have been careful to continue maintaining packages none of them use
 if its seen as crucial to a large majority of users. None of the
 packages being moved fit these criteria. At all.

I see your point. I looked through the [extra] - [] list yesterday or
so and was a bit shocked at first until I saw that most of the packages
I considered important would be maintained in community.

However, what I tried to point out is what would happen if a binary -
source trend develops.

One other thing: The lists are based on orphans. My impression was that
it's common practice among developers to adopt - update - orphan.
Based on this I wonder whether it's sensible to create lists of removal
candidates based on orphans.



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 15:06:33 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
 On 11/16/2010 05:07 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
  On 17/11/10 00:53, Heiko Baums wrote:
  Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:34:51 +1000
  
  schrieb Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org:
  There is a difference between ignorance and not giving a shit...
  
  Right, giving a shit is also arrogant.
  
  So now you are equating arrogant and ignorant? And did you miss a not
  there? Because giving a shit is rarely arrogant unless you take it too
  an extreme.
  
  In conclusion, you make very poor arguments with logical fallacies
  everywhere. No wonder you never seem to get your way.
  
  Allan
  (the ever pedantic bastard...)
 
 GET A ROOM

Awesome.

Second only to Xyne's Cared thou not, thou would have abstained message:


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 15:06:33 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
 On 11/16/2010 05:07 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
  On 17/11/10 00:53, Heiko Baums wrote:
  Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:34:51 +1000
  
  schrieb Allan McRaeal...@archlinux.org:
  There is a difference between ignorance and not giving a shit...
  
  Right, giving a shit is also arrogant.
  
  So now you are equating arrogant and ignorant? And did you miss a not
  there? Because giving a shit is rarely arrogant unless you take it too
  an extreme.
  
  In conclusion, you make very poor arguments with logical fallacies
  everywhere. No wonder you never seem to get your way.
  
  Allan
  (the ever pedantic bastard...)
 
 GET A ROOM

Awesome.

Second only in in terms of mailing list awesomeness to Xyne's Cared thou not, 
thou would have abstained message:

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-September/010709.html


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 16 November 2010 19:03, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:34:11 +0100
 schrieb Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org:

 Hi TUs,
 we are here again. After the success with [extra] (DEVs adopted ~80
 packages, TUs ~60), I want to reduce the number of orphans packages
 in [community]. Actually, they are 84 (82, I just adopted two...).

 The list is here[1]. Simply cross out the package which you want to
 maintain in [community]. Adoption is not required, but would be nice.
 Packages will be moved to AUR this Saturday 20th.

 Thanks

 [1]
 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Community_Repo_Cleanup

 squashfs-tools

 What have you told me about that when you have moved this from [extra]
 to [community]?

 Now it shall be moved to AUR? And why was it moved to [community] if it
 is an orphan there? And isn't this needed to building LiveCDs including
 the Arch Linux installation CDs?

 You really should think about that.

Man, you are right. In fact, I was just studying archiso and
squashfs-tools is one of the dependencies. If no-one is going to
maintain it, I will :)

See, as long as it's important and there is someone on the team who
actually needs it, it'll be fine. I was a Gentoo user just like you,
and came to Arch Linux for exactly the same reasons. I do not think it
is straying away just because some orphaned packages are being
dropped to AUR. So, come on board and save them! Even if something's
dropped, it's not like it can't be adopted back if and when deemed
important. It is not the end!

You see, the way Arch started and the way it is now is not going to be
any different just because it has grown popular. I think you should
know this very well, being an Archer for some time. This is not the
first time we have had disagreements between users (a developer/TU is
a user). For some historical fun, google the term 'archmilkers'.


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:09:35 +0100
schrieb Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de:

 But I expect from a developer that he doesn't remove popular packages
 inconsiderately from the repos. (Otherwise don't call Arch Linux a
 binary distro.) I expect from a developer that he uses his brain.
 Sorry for this wording.

The Devs provide a basic distro + _some_ binary packages.

We had a conclusion to provide a core repo that is known to be
working and could be the ground to build _yourself_ a system to fit your
needs.

Take the extra repo as an additional gift some of us like to provide.
It costs us a lot of time to maintain binary packages. Nobody is
responsible to keep them alive.

Packages come in and will fade out once a maintainer looses the
interest in it. After some time we can't make sure it's still in a good
shape and drop it from our official repo and leave it up to the
community. You will have to live with this.

-Andy


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Seblu
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Andrea Scarpino and...@archlinux.org wrote:
 On Tuesday 16 November 2010 12:48:03 Heiko Baums wrote:
  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.

Hello,

I am a new user of arch since 3 months. I take this opportunity,
between 2 shots, to propose to adopt package squashfs-tools.
But i'm not a TU and i believe, it's necessary. So i need a TU mentor.

Regards,

-- 
Sébastien Luttringer
www.seblu.net


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Brad Fanella
As already mentioned, many of these packages haven't been updated
upstream in a long time, and I doubt many of them will.

For example:
Name: polymer
Upstream: http://static.int.pl/~mig21/dev/releases/polymer/
Description: QT3 port of Plastik
Last news update: 14.05.2005

Really? 2005 and QT3?

Moral of the story: just adopt them. Chances are you will never have
to do any work with them (excluding the ones that *actually* do get
upstream changes), and it makes the repo look/function in a whole lot
cleaner manner.

Regards,
Brad


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 00:15 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:27 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
  On 16 November 2010 15:21, Sergej Pupykin m...@sergej.pp.ru wrote:
  
   Hi,
  
   I think there is no need to move orphaned package to AUR until it
   works and does not have critical/security bugs.
  
  
  +1. Why remove working packages?
 
 If unmaintained, then why not let someone who actually uses the package
 maintain it?

I actually use python-pyparallel, which is why I stuck my name beside
it.  Funny that python-pyserial (closely related) is still maintained by
the original packager...

Gordon MM0YEQ



[aur-general] removal

2010-11-16 Thread jwbirdsong
Please remove webilder http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3708.
WA out-dated and replace by webilder-applet
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16807.

I _may_ re-upload under original name when/if I get webilder-applet
package working 100%


Re: [aur-general] removal

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen
Done.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, jwbirdsong 
jwbirds...@jwbirdsong.homelinux.com wrote:

 Please remove webilder http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3708.
 WA out-dated and replace by webilder-applet
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16807.

 I _may_ re-upload under original name when/if I get webilder-applet
 package working 100%




-- 
Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 18:28 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
 Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-11-16 17:13:47 +0100: 
  This thread started with the assertion that 'many important' packages
  are getting moved to the AUR. I believe this assertion to be false, as,
  obviously, do the devs. Historically from reading [arch-dev-public] the
  devs have been careful to continue maintaining packages none of them use
  if its seen as crucial to a large majority of users. None of the
  packages being moved fit these criteria. At all.
 
 I see your point. I looked through the [extra] - [] list yesterday or
 so and was a bit shocked at first until I saw that most of the packages
 I considered important would be maintained in community.
 
 However, what I tried to point out is what would happen if a binary -
 source trend develops.

No danger of that happening here. The devs use Arch, why would they move
out stuff they consider important? And between them, what they consider
important is probably almost everything in a 'base' install for the big
distros (Ubuntu, Fedora etc.), because importance also depends on
user-base. Higher user-base means its more likely a dev uses it =).
 
 One other thing: The lists are based on orphans. My impression was that
 it's common practice among developers to adopt - update - orphan.
 Based on this I wonder whether it's sensible to create lists of removal
 candidates based on orphans.
 
I think that's only common practice for packages where noone really
wants them, the initial dev has left/become inactive, so its in a state
of limbo, but when devs have the time they look at the 'out-of-date'
flag and help out.



[aur-general] delete packages

2010-11-16 Thread Joao Cordeiro
starcal-new (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32486)
starcal-last (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35941)
The user was creating a new package every time a new version came out. Since
the original starcal was orphaned I updated it and fixed the problem with
python (that all the three had.) I think these two should be deleted, even
though starcal-new is not orphaned.

nppangband-newest (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34119)
Duplicate of nppangband from extra.

rainlendar-beta (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16491)
rainlendar-light is now on version 2.7, rainlendar-beta-unstable is on
2.8.b98. The two of them completely replace it.


liferea-dev (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23759)
Completely outdated. liferea, liferea-git and liferea-unstable are all up to
date, replacing -dev.


Re: [aur-general] delete packages

2010-11-16 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:13:14AM +, Joao Cordeiro wrote:
 starcal-new (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32486)
 starcal-last (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35941)
 The user was creating a new package every time a new version came out. Since
 the original starcal was orphaned I updated it and fixed the problem with
 python (that all the three had.) I think these two should be deleted, even
 though starcal-new is not orphaned.
 
 nppangband-newest (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34119)
 Duplicate of nppangband from extra.
 
 rainlendar-beta (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16491)
 rainlendar-light is now on version 2.7, rainlendar-beta-unstable is on
 2.8.b98. The two of them completely replace it.
 
 
 liferea-dev (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23759)
 Completely outdated. liferea, liferea-git and liferea-unstable are all up to
 date, replacing -dev.

Done, thanks a lot :)


[aur-general] Various new packages in [community]

2010-11-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
Dear TUs,

I'm Gaetan, a (discreet) junior dev, mentored by Allan. I recently got
access to sigurd and thought I would use that opportunity to maintain in
[community] a few packages I have been maintaining on the AUR so far,
but which are just a bit too unpopular to go to [extra]:

pari (fast advanced calculator)
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19196

dnstracer (DNS diagnosis tool)
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3229

collectd (performance collecting daemon)
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2341

They have over thirty votes each.

Is it okay by everyone?

Cheers.

-- 
Gaetan


Re: [aur-general] Various new packages in [community]

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen

 collectd (performance collecting daemon)
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2341


I don't know how much my vote counts in this but I would love to some more
server-oriented packages in [community]. That being said I looked at the
PKGBUILD. It needs to be cleaned up before it can enter [community]. Please
try to support as many plugins as you can using makedepends (remove things
like hddtemp from depends), and place them instead in optdepends along with
a note so that users know which dependencies they need to use the plugin
configuration that they want.

Thanks,
Kaiting.

-- 
Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


[aur-general] What to do about raggle?

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen
I'm maintaining raggle in [unsupported] and it seems to be broken despite my
attempts to patch it as best I can. The project has been abandoned upstream
since 2005, and I don't think ruby-ncurses which it depends on really even
works. I would delete it except that it has 75 votes. What to do?

Kaiting.

-- 
Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen
Before anyone gets any more worked up I wanted to point out that there are
only 27 Trusted Users and 32 Developers. In the official repository there
are around 4848 packages altogether. That averages out to 82.169 packages
per person which is kind of ridiculous considering the Developers have to
develop and the Trusted Users have other responsibilities as well.

So I think this binary - source phenomenon is just the best that we can do
given how shorthanded we all are. I think the philosophy is that anyone can
adopt in [unsupported], and if no Developer or Trusted User will adopt a
binary package then we should at least give the concerned user a chance to
adopt it.

Honestly if it were up to me I would remove half of the packages from the
official repositories and stick them in the AUR because past 40 your
packages start to develop major Quantity over Quality issues and I don't
think that's what we're going for.

I think this would be a much more constructive conversation if we all
stopped complaining about the situation and started talking about how to
improve the AUR. --Kaiting.

-- 
Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Brad Fanella
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Before anyone gets any more worked up I wanted to point out that there are
 only 27 Trusted Users and 32 Developers. In the official repository there
 are around 4848 packages altogether. That averages out to 82.169 packages
 per person which is kind of ridiculous considering the Developers have to
 develop and the Trusted Users have other responsibilities as well.

 So I think this binary - source phenomenon is just the best that we can do
 given how shorthanded we all are. I think the philosophy is that anyone can
 adopt in [unsupported], and if no Developer or Trusted User will adopt a
 binary package then we should at least give the concerned user a chance to
 adopt it.

 Honestly if it were up to me I would remove half of the packages from the
 official repositories and stick them in the AUR because past 40 your
 packages start to develop major Quantity over Quality issues and I don't
 think that's what we're going for.

 I think this would be a much more constructive conversation if we all
 stopped complaining about the situation and started talking about how to
 improve the AUR. --Kaiting.

 --
 Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


That's not a very good argument.

Sergej Pupykin: 1480 packages
Jan de Groot: 1094 packages
Andrea Scarpino: 809 packages

They all do an excellent job with maintaining a massive amount of
packages at one time. Therefore, it obviously can be done without the
quantity over quality issue that you speak of.

Regards,
Brad


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Kazuo Teramoto
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Brad Fanella bradfane...@archlinux.us wrote:
 That's not a very good argument.

 Sergej Pupykin: 1480 packages
 Jan de Groot: 1094 packages
 Andrea Scarpino: 809 packages

 They all do an excellent job with maintaining a massive amount of
 packages at one time. Therefore, it obviously can be done without the
 quantity over quality issue that you speak of.


O.O

Man, I feel so depressed now, serious... I'm so unproductive and
unorganized... Please tell me the that this 3 people are something
like Borgs made of hundreds of developers minds linked together... =]

(Very best) Regards,
Kazuo

-- 
“The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of
life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always
disappointed.”

Donald E. Knuth


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 16 Nov 2010 21:21 -0600, Brad Fanella wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Honestly if it were up to me I would remove half of the packages from the
  official repositories and stick them in the AUR because past 40 your
  packages start to develop major Quantity over Quality issues and I don't
  think that's what we're going for.
 
  I think this would be a much more constructive conversation if we all
  stopped complaining about the situation and started talking about how to
  improve the AUR. --Kaiting.
 
 That's not a very good argument.
 
 Sergej Pupykin: 1480 packages
 Jan de Groot: 1094 packages
 Andrea Scarpino: 809 packages
 
 They all do an excellent job with maintaining a massive amount of
 packages at one time. Therefore, it obviously can be done without the
 quantity over quality issue that you speak of.

I think he was talking about mere mortals when he wrote that.

Kaiting has a very good point though that much could be done to improve
the AUR making it easier to deal with source packages and maybe other
source based repos in Arch.



Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Evangelos Foutras
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On 17/11/10 05:21, Brad Fanella wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Before anyone gets any more worked up I wanted to point out that there are
 only 27 Trusted Users and 32 Developers. In the official repository there
 are around 4848 packages altogether. That averages out to 82.169 packages
 per person which is kind of ridiculous considering the Developers have to
 develop and the Trusted Users have other responsibilities as well.

 So I think this binary - source phenomenon is just the best that we can do
 given how shorthanded we all are. I think the philosophy is that anyone can
 adopt in [unsupported], and if no Developer or Trusted User will adopt a
 binary package then we should at least give the concerned user a chance to
 adopt it.

 Honestly if it were up to me I would remove half of the packages from the
 official repositories and stick them in the AUR because past 40 your
 packages start to develop major Quantity over Quality issues and I don't
 think that's what we're going for.

 I think this would be a much more constructive conversation if we all
 stopped complaining about the situation and started talking about how to
 improve the AUR. --Kaiting.

 --
 Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

 
 That's not a very good argument.
 
 Sergej Pupykin: 1480 packages
 Jan de Groot: 1094 packages
 Andrea Scarpino: 809 packages
 
 They all do an excellent job with maintaining a massive amount of
 packages at one time. Therefore, it obviously can be done without the
 quantity over quality issue that you speak of.

I strongly agree with Kaiting. In my opinion, more than 50-60 packages
is pushing it.

I doubt the numbers you posted are accurate. For example, (and if I'm
not mistaken,) Andrea maintains lots of KDE packages which are split
into many sub-packages. The number of actual PKGBUILDs is significantly
smaller. This fact makes maintaining all these (sub-)packages much
easier. For more precise measurements, you could grep through all
PKGBUILDs in /var/abs:

  $ grep -r '# Maintainer' /var/abs | grep -c Scarpino
  152

  $ grep -r '# Maintainer' /var/abs | grep -c Groot
  456

  $ grep -r '# Maintainer' /var/abs | grep -c Pupykin
  708

Moreover, for a conservative maintenance time estimation of 10
minutes/package/month, you will need to spend 10 hours each month,
updating and solving bugs, for every 60 packages you own. This doesn't
scale very well; if you had 300 packages, you'd need to set aside 50
hours each month.

Let's not forget we're talking about orphan packages here. This means
that nobody is interested in maintaining them. Why exactly should they
stay in [community], when someone who cares about them can adopt and
maintain them properly in the AUR?

- -- 
Evangelos Foutras
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[aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen
How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start:

1. Integrated distributed version control system
2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should
probably be carefully controlled)
3. Time-adjusted 'relevance' measure (votes are useful but suck at the same
time; nobody cares if a packages was upvoted 9000+ times a million years
ago, especially if it's already been obsoleted by something else)
4. An official client
5. LDAP support because LDAP makes everything so much better

--Kaiting

-- 
Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen

 As already mentioned, many of these packages haven't been updated
 upstream in a long time, and I doubt many of them will.

 For example:
 Name: polymer
 Upstream: 
 http://static.int.pl/~mig21/dev/releases/polymer/http://static.int.pl/%7Emig21/dev/releases/polymer/
 Description: QT3 port of Plastik
 Last news update: 14.05.2005

 Really? 2005 and QT3?

 Moral of the story: just adopt them. Chances are you will never have
 to do any work with them (excluding the ones that *actually* do get
 upstream changes), and it makes the repo look/function in a whole lot
 cleaner manner


I think it's kind of hard for me to see why I should maintain a package
that's already been discarded by its developer. In my opinion such packages
should be moved to [unsupported] where the one more two people who might
want to use them can simply build them themselves. --Kaiting.

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Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-16 Thread Jonathan Conder

On 17/11/10 17:17, Kaiting Chen wrote:

How can we make the AUR even better?
I think it would be nice if people who click the Notify button get 
emailed when the package is updated, and not just when someone comments. 
Some maintainers don't say anything when they update.


Jonathan


Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 23:17 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote:
 How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start:

Won't comment on the others for now, but...

 2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should
 probably be carefully controlled)

No, if binaries are required it should be in [community]. It would also
drastically increase bandwidth requirements (both up and down).



Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-16 Thread Kaiting Chen

 No, if binaries are required it should be in [community]. It would also
 drastically increase bandwidth requirements (both up and down).


First, I'm still not actually sure what kind of resources Arch Linux has and
if this would be a problem. Second, it would not if those binaries are
hosted elsewhere. There's no way for a vested user to systematically say
right now, Hey I've compiled this package if anyone wants it. --Kaiting.

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Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/


Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-16 Thread Allan McRae

On 17/11/10 17:02, Kaiting Chen wrote:


No, if binaries are required it should be in [community]. It would also
drastically increase bandwidth requirements (both up and down).



First, I'm still not actually sure what kind of resources Arch Linux has and
if this would be a problem. Second, it would not if those binaries are
hosted elsewhere. There's no way for a vested user to systematically say
right now, Hey I've compiled this package if anyone wants it. --Kaiting.



Sure there is...  and many people have made available repos:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_User_Repositories



Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-16 Thread Ray Rashif
On 17 November 2010 12:17, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote:
 How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start:

 1. Integrated distributed version control system

0

 2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should
 probably be carefully controlled)

-1

This should _never_ happen. One of the main problems is
non-redistributable binaries, and we'll not be able to prevent that.
The [community] repository serves this purpose. For anything else,
including niche groups, separate projects can be set up.

 3. Time-adjusted 'relevance' measure (votes are useful but suck at the same
 time; nobody cares if a packages was upvoted 9000+ times a million years
 ago, especially if it's already been obsoleted by something else)

0

 4. An official client

-1

You should know we do not allow this for a reason. This will never change.

 5. LDAP support because LDAP makes everything so much better

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