On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Xyne<[email protected]> wrote: >> The maintainer of a package should be able to delete comments as this >> would make some of the more popular packages' comments easier to clean >> up. Instead of a trusted user needing to do this, the owner of the >> package could be allowed to delete any comments older that a week. >> That's a policy decision, but I hope we will have some way of deleting >> comments that refer to bugs that have been fixed. > > This would prevent users from being able to flag malicious packages. If > this were implemented, I would like to see a "report malicious package" > link or something else. As Arch continues to grow we will end up with > malicious users and I would prefer to be prepared to handle these when > the time comes. >
You mean you have seen comments about malicious packages and removed them? I doubt it. Malicious or useless packages, at least since mere users are not able to delete them, have *always* been reported on the mailing list or to TUs directly, or the AUR cleanup wiki page. -- Greg
