Re: [aur-general] Some packages to consider deleting...

[Andrea Scarpino]

On 21/09/2009, Smartboy  wrote:
> I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which
> could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got:
>
> audacious-beta ,
> audacious-plugins-beta :
> Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2
> minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without
> hurting anything.
>
> bang :
> This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build
> anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained
> upstream.
>
> beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver:
> Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2
> years now. These can be removed.
>
> cairo-newspr :
> Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned
> it. I see no reason for this package to stick around.
>
> catalyst-vanilla :
> Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old
> maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be
> reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD.
>
> ejourn :
> Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been
> updated in 3 years. It should be deleted.
>
> enna-cvs :
> e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted.
>
> php4-gtk :
> This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been
> updated in years.
>
> qtpoveditor :
> Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either.
>
> rstatd :
> Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005.
>
> Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;)
> Smartboy
really thank you man. all deleted.

-- 
Andrea `bash` Scarpino
Arch Linux Developer

[aur-general] Some packages to consider deleting...

[Smartboy]

I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which
could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got:

audacious-beta ,
audacious-plugins-beta :
Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2
minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without
hurting anything.

bang :
This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build
anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained
upstream.

beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver:
Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2
years now. These can be removed.

cairo-newspr :
Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned
it. I see no reason for this package to stick around.

catalyst-vanilla :
Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old
maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be
reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD.

ejourn :
Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been
updated in 3 years. It should be deleted.

enna-cvs :
e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted.

php4-gtk :
This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been
updated in years.

qtpoveditor :
Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either.

rstatd :
Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005.

Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;)
Smartboy