Am Mittwoch 14 Juli 2010, 23:10:07 schrieb Ionuț Bîru: > On 07/14/2010 11:54 PM, Michael Düll (akurei) wrote: > > Hello fellow Archers! > > > > I wonder why there's no option to delete your own package from AUR. > > > > Some users pointed out, that there once was too much abusive behaviour. I > > can't think of a way how this could be abused, if you are only allowed to > > delete your _own_ uploaded packages, except one: If there's many users > > (and OTHER packages from AUR that rely on that perticular package [eg > > bin32-wine relies on lib32-libldap from AUR]), and you delete it, thus > > breaking dependencies. > > My proposal is: Allow people to delete their own AUR packages if a) No > > other AUR package depends on it and b) if there's less than 10 people > > "using" it (aurvote). This way it would be easy to delete a faulty > > package without first asking on the list and it would hopefully > > encourage more people to try and put PKGBUILDS on AUR. > > > > akurei > > we had in the past a problem with an user who deleted a lot of packages. > he did that by adopting orphaned packages
Okay, so let's introduce a "barrier": Let one delete packages like I said (he owns them, no other package relies on it, no more than 10 aurvotes) _plus_ let one delete packages, that he owns for _more than three months_. This way there's less chance that someboy "goes amok". Additionally there could be an "Trusted-User-Only Undelete" feature for a few weeks. akurei
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