On Sat 30 Apr 2011 16:12 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/04/11 12:25, Loui Chang wrote: > >On Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49 -0400, keenerd wrote: > >>I would like to move Aurphan into community. I've added a number of > >>features to it lately, and it has become an automated means of > >>answering "what can I do to help Arch", parsing and summarizing the > >>todo list, the bugtracker and the orphans. The one random dev I've > >>asked seems cool with it, however he thought a wider consensus should > >>be found. It has enough votes but.... > >> > >>Aurphan could be considered an AUR helper. By default it searches the > >>AUR for AUR packages you already have installed. It does not download > >>anything. > >> > >>I will change it so the default behavior does not search the AUR. > >>(New default would display the --help) I won't change the name, on > >>account of it being cute. > > > >>aur page: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43726 > >>project page: http://kmkeen.com/aurphan/ > > > >This script seems like a really nice idea, but if it deals with > >unsupported packages it should remain in that domain. Maybe move the > >functionality that deals with unsupported into an add-on that you can > >install separately? > > We should also drop wget, curl and firefox from the repos as they can be > used to download unsupported packages... In fact, this script is safer > because it does not even do that.
Allan, I appreciate your work but you completely missed the point. wget, curl and firefox do not contain functionality to specifically access the unsupported packages. They are general network programs. I guess it depends on what your vision is. If you want more people expecting support for unsupported packages, then put these scripts into extra or community. I can't stop you, I'm just a lowly nobody and you're a big bad dev.
