On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:04:37 -0400 Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@xxxxxxxxx> 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. This looks like a packaging bug which is rather general: a package in [extra] depends on a package from [community] or [aur]. AIF is one example, ruby is another... Regarding AIF/grub, you could file a bug to either (a) move AIF to AUR, or (b) make grub-bios provide grub. > > 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. By 'dead' you mean a package no longer available in the official repos? I would be for such tool provided I could disable it. For example, I still have grub-legacy and don't care to migrate to grub2, so I don't want pacman to remove my grub1. > > Footnotes: > [1] unless, of course, it's not actually a menial task, in which case > please enlighten me > -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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