On 6 October 2013 04:11, Gaetan Bisson <bis...@archlinux.org> wrote: > [2013-10-06 11:46:49 +1000] Allan McRae: >> On 05/10/13 14:06, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> > I understand that we are supposed to be the upstream on this, but since >> > no developer or trusted user has shown interest in maintaining these >> > packages, why not let users do it? Things like desktop manager themes >> > could be improved by the community. Ultimately if neither official Arch >> > packagers or users care, those packages could just be plain removed... >> >> I have had an email pointed out that these artworks carry our TM and we >> may want to consider the consequences of not controlling them ourselves. > > We control the artworks, but do we also need to control the window > manager themes that use them? And the packages that include them? > > Anyway, I'm fine with anyone but me adopting this. :) > > -- > Gaetan
I'd be in favor of keeping the WM agnostic (archlinux-artwork, archlinux-wallpaper) ones in official repos for trademark reasons but I'm confortable with the Slim and LXDM ones going to AUR. Anyway: none of these 4 pakages seems to be an orphan anymore so that could put an end to this discussion :)