[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]

2014-09-04 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 6 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 25 packages missing signoffs * 0 packages older than 14 days

Re: [aur-general] Meta packages in AUR?

2014-09-04 Thread carstene1ns
Am 04.09.2014 um 07:29 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: > An example of these "meta" packages is "meta-group-base-devel", which is an > "empty" > package that has all the packages in "base-devel" as dependencies. > This helps me keep things like "pacman -Qen" short and readable, and also make > sure

Re: [aur-general] Categories

2014-09-04 Thread Jeremy Audet
What happens if something really belongs in two categories? In that case, one should use a tagging mechanism instead of a categorization mechanism. > On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a > few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless. +1 — Jerem

Re: [aur-general] Meta packages in AUR?

2014-09-04 Thread Jeremy Audet
If you're serious about using a custom package across all your systems in a native way, one option is to add a new paragraph into /etc/pacman.conf: # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for # tips on creating your own repositories. #[custom] #SigLevel

[aur-general] [Removal request] vim-lettuce

2014-09-04 Thread Andy Weidenbaum
I added vim-colors-lettuce to replace vim-lettuce. The original vim-lettuce package is now obsolete. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vim-lettuce/

Re: [aur-general] Categories

2014-09-04 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2014-09-04 14:07, lolilolicon wrote: > > How about tags=(awesome cool game)? Well, my goal is to sometime be able to search installed packages quickly. I have installed some games of which I can't recall their names, and there's really no quick way to search for them in pacman - that was my

Re: [aur-general] Categories

2014-09-04 Thread carstene1ns
Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: > [...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use. > Otherwise, I'm ok > with deleting them. pacman has no AUR support, this was a decision. So the only way to allow it to see such data would be to add it to the PKGBUILD or

Re: [aur-general] Categories

2014-09-04 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2014-09-05 02:59, carstene1ns wrote: > Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: > > [...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use. > > Otherwise, I'm ok > > with deleting them. > pacman has no AUR support, this was a decision. So the only way to allow > it to

Re: [aur-general] Categories

2014-09-04 Thread Tai-Lin Chu
still we have tons of packages that do not follow category. Searching by category is ineffective. I think the best way to know about package is to let users write "aur packages reviews" for the packages they love. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2014-09-05 02:59,