On dim., 2015-12-20 at 09:32 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 20/12/15 09:26, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > > I plan to move back agetpkg to extra next week if there is no objection. > > I am assuming agetpkg is for dealing with archived packages (which are > unsupported). The reasonv for not including AUR helpers in the repos > was that they give what appears like supported access to unsupported > content. Why should agetpkg be considered any different? >
I think there is a difference between outdated official packages and non- official packages. The last may not have the level of quality, trust and be harmful for a system. So preventing helpers to be in official repository make sense. In the other hand, agetpkg helps to retrieve previous official packages in order to troubleshoot or rescue a broken system when they are missing in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/X. I think what is not supported is non-official packages and reporting issues about non up-to-date packages, not downloading an outdated one. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A
