Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-11 Thread Vanush Misha Paturyan via aur-general
On Feb 09 2019 20:36:16 -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > On 2/9/19 2:35 PM, Xyne wrote: > >> When the package furthermore has no other defined purpose - as Morten > >> pointed out, this is clearly something overly specialized - *and* the > >> deletion was handled according to procedure

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.

2019-02-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:52:58 +0100, alad via aur-general wrote: >Thanks for adding the warning. There are tendencies to add way too much unneeded warnings nowadays, so people tend to ignore warnings completely, also those warnings, that are really important. Are you sure, that the script could gen

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-10 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 20:35 schrieb Xyne: > alad via aur-general wrote: > >> When I look at the removed package however, I see a bash script which >> takes up all available resources to display an animation which may >> induce severe health issues to some users, i.e. induce epileptic attacks. > I someho

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.

2019-02-10 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 10.02.2019 um 11:24 schrieb Aniket Pradhan: > Hello Everyone! > > I am Aniket Pradhan, username: major, who wrote "lsd" and initiated the > discussion. > > I would like to thank everyone for their input on this matter. > > I agree with the others, that this IS a silly little script. I wrote it >

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.

2019-02-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:54:32 +0530, Aniket Pradhan wrote: >(Thank you, Alad for reminding me to add an epilepsy warning). Please don't overdo do it. As already pointed out by Xyne, epilepsy unlikely was at any point a consideration. Without going into great detail: "Contrasts in colour alone (wi

[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions.

2019-02-10 Thread Aniket Pradhan
Hello Everyone! I am Aniket Pradhan, username: major, who wrote "lsd" and initiated the discussion. I would like to thank everyone for their input on this matter. I agree with the others, that this IS a silly little script. I wrote it when I was learning shell programming. I published it to the

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Eli Schwartz via aur-general
On 2/9/19 2:35 PM, Xyne wrote: >> When the package furthermore has no other defined purpose - as Morten >> pointed out, this is clearly something overly specialized - *and* the >> deletion was handled according to procedure (with a deletion request, >> see below), then I don't see the issue. > > T

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Xyne
alad via aur-general wrote: >When I look at the removed package however, I see a bash script which >takes up all available resources to display an animation which may >induce severe health issues to some users, i.e. induce epileptic attacks. I somehow doubt that epilepsy was at any point a consid

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Xyne
Maksim Fomin via aur-general wrote: >For me, your program is not far from discovering bash programming. >The fact that it has github page and README.md tells nothing. Having those >does not mean such software can be uploaded to AUR. > >Try to look objectively. You have discussed this issue in the

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 14:49 schrieb Xyne: > On 2019-02-09 14:36 +0100 > alad via aur-general wrote: > >> The "original" lsf looks like a joke/troll package to me, rather than >> "trivial". I'd have deleted it even without community duplicate. >> >> Alad > To me it just looks like the package of someon

[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Maksim Fomin via aur-general
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, February 9, 2019 1:49 PM, Xyne wrote: > On 2019-02-09 14:36 +0100 > alad via aur-general wrote: > > > The "original" lsf looks like a joke/troll package to me, rather than > > "trivial". I'd have deleted it even without community duplicate. > > Alad >

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Morten Linderud via aur-general
On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 02:49:33PM +0100, Xyne wrote: > The discussion is important because we need to have a general consensus on > deletion criteria. Rogue TUs can't be allowed to roam the AUR deleting > whatever > they personally don't find useful on a given day. `Make sure the package you wan

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Xyne
On 2019-02-09 14:36 +0100 alad via aur-general wrote: >The "original" lsf looks like a joke/troll package to me, rather than >"trivial". I'd have deleted it even without community duplicate. > >Alad To me it just looks like the package of someone discovering bash programming with ANSI escape code

Re: [aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread alad via aur-general
Am 09.02.2019 um 14:34 schrieb Xyne: > Hi everyone, > > This is in regard to this thread on the forum: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051 > > The packaged contained this project: > https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd > > To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed fo

[aur-general] Handling coincidental name collisions

2019-02-09 Thread Xyne
Hi everyone, This is in regard to this thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244051 The packaged contained this project: https://github.com/Aniket-Pradhan/lsd To summarize the thread, an AUR package that had existed for a while was deleted when an unrelated package of t