On 28/07/12 13:04, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > > Sorry if this is dragging up an old topic, but I've been poking around > AIF as I'm interested in possibly (hopefully) bringing it up to speed > and/or improving it, and I noticed that it's still in the repos, but > isn't installable by anyone who doesn't happen to have grub legacy still > installed on their system, unless I'm missing something. > > It seems like we'd want to avoid having to manually remove packages > every time it becomes impossible to install a set of them. This might be > my unfamiliarity with libalpm or pacman or any other myriad part of the > stack, but it seems like the type of thing that could be handled by a > utlity and a cron job fairly easily. > > It also seems like the type of thing that wouldn't be too annoying to > deal with manually at the moment, but that could get frustrating for > both users and devs down the line. Menial maintanence tasks like that[1] > tend to end up sucking down a lot of people's time and energy in the > long run, in my experience. > > If the lack of an automated "dead package remover" is just a "lack of > time / patches welcome" type of thing, I'd volunteer to take a crack at > writing the thing. If it isn't, I'd really like to know why. > > Footnotes: > [1] unless, of course, it's not actually a menial task, in which case > please enlighten me > pacman -Sdd aif Btw you could just use the AIF git repo and I guess the package will soon be removed from the repos anyway. -- Jelle van der Waa
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