Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010, 00:54:56 schrieb Thomas Dziedzic: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15/07/10 08:49, Michael Düll (akurei) wrote: > >> 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 ;) > > > > I think it would be better to just have a "delete request" button which > > would require a note why the package needs deleted so that the TUs could > > have a list they can easily access and work through. > > > > Allan > > +1 for this idea
I like this idea, too.
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