Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:41:13 schrieb Thomas Dziedzic: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Düll (akurei) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > > > > I guess you could open this as a feature request if you really want > > to, the problem I see is that you have to make sure the system can't > > be abused. Also, someone has to code it up, and I haven't really seen > > much interest in the aur website at all. Its just what I think atm. > > Also, this seems like more work then just asking for a tu to check out > a package and delete it.
I could take over this task. Somehow (if there's PHP and SQL). I am merely asking if it would be accepted by the Archers ;) akurei
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