On Saturday 13 November 2010 15:23:45 Heiko Baums wrote: > Nice, then I would need to install 110 packages from AUR and compile > them manually. When I switched to Arch Linux about 3 years ago it was > less than 50. Is a tiny that you do not use any of ours ~8000 packages in official repositories. > When will the so called "binary distribution" Arch Linux become a > second Gentoo, a pure source based distribution, because "no developer > is interested in maintaining" anything anymore? Btw., PKGBUILDs also in > AUR need to be maintained. Yes, by people which use them. > Also squashfs-utils which is "degraded" to community belongs to [extra] > because it is necessary for building LiveCDs as far as I know. Then? You cannot install software which is in [community]? > And, btw., funny enough was ding updated recently although it was > orphaned. Yes, was updated by *ME*. Me, Ionut, Eric, Daniel, Giovanni (etc..) update orphans packages when we have a bit of time. But we do not use them and we cannot do many tests, we cannot know if upstread dev added some new feature, etc. > I wouldn't say anything if you would cleanup the official repos from > unnecessary, unimportant and unused or hardly used packages like some > ttf fonts, GTK1 themes, etc. But there are too many, too important > packages in your list which definitely belong into the official binary > repos and which are in the official binary repos of every other binary > distribution. I'd like to see your application as TU. -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
