On Wed, 9 May 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On 5/9/07, Douglas Soares de Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aaron Griffin escreveu: >>> Ok all, I'm going to compile a list of packages that we're going to >>> try to get rid of. The reason being that our man power for >>> maintaining all these packages is pretty low. >>> >>> So, what I'd like to do to start this off is the following. From you >>> guys, the end users, can you let me know what packages in extra you >>> think don't really belong there? >>> >>> What I mean is this: often times, there are packages that come along >>> which are so much better than something else, a vast majority of users >>> jump ship for the new app. Take, for instance, openbox/fluxbox. >>> >>> To you devs, please let me know if you feel any of your packages don't >>> belong either - you probably know these packages better than other >>> people. This will speed up my job in compiling this list (I already >>> have a few of my own packages listed). >>> >>> By this Friday, I'd like to have a list complete so we can begin >>> moving some things to community / unsupported as we see fit. This >>> will require some TU input as well - if you guys see a package you'd >>> want to maintain, we can move it to community actually easier than >>> moving it to the AUR. >> >> >> Hi Aaron, >> >> If it is not a problem i would like to maintain the set of pyqt, sip and >> qscintilla packages and some python others if needed. >> >> I can also help with maintaining gnome, if needed. >> >> As i use this tools a lot. > > pyqt might be a stretch, as I'd expect we actually have some packages > depending on it elsewhere. As for the others, I'd have to check on > real usage. > > Please contact JGC regarding gnome, as I'm sure he'd love the help. >
Hi Aaron, I don't know which packages are available but I could maintain the ones I use: fvwm-devel, gnuplot, xmms, etc. If you want, I could also help out maintaining stuff in extra. I have a x86_64 box so I could do some porting for Arch64. Eric (Snowman) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
