On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ashok Gautham <[email protected]> wrote: > There are three kinds of orphans in AUR at the moment. > > 1) A sea of packages that have either become obselete or have been > added in some other package. ( Like dolphin ). > > 2) The others are ruby/python/perl libraries. The problem with these > is that installing them using pyPI or gems is quite simple (though > not highly recommended). So many of these get orphaned > > 3) The last category is where maintainers do not have the time > to do justice to their packages and hence orphan it. > > > I found I had a little free time and could adopt some packages. I found > myself in this sea. > > It would be good if we can start a wiki page where every "useful" package > that is currently orphaned can be added and removed once adopted. > > I checked out the wiki. The AUR cleanup day is the closest I got to. > > We would need something like an inverse of that now. So any user who > wants to adopt a package should go to the page, choose whatever he > wants to adopt and remove it from the page. I feel this will clear up a lot > of packages in the second and last categories. > > Also, we can give a guideline for people who disown packages to add it > to the corresponding page (obselete/required) in the hope that someone > will take over the package > > > --- > Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham >
doesn't the orphan search function in AUR do the same and automated?
