On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:43:28PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > You should really think about that. There are many of the most > important, oldest and best known packages in this list like dia, ding, > xboard, eboard, epdfview, slmodem etc. > > In other words, your list is likely the half of the distro. > > If you would put all of them to AUR then you could give up Arch Linux, > because then it has almost no advantage over Gentoo, that is, then will > Arch Linux become a second Gentoo, because the users will have to > compile a lot of (most of the) important packages manually. Erm. There's still a chance all those packages will be moved to [community] instead of unsupported. E.g. dia, xboard, epdfview and slmodem are still marked as candidates to [community] and will not be moved to the AUR.
