在 2011-11-8 上午3:09，"Stefan Wilkens" <[email protected]>写道：
> 2011/11/7 Nicola Bignami <[email protected]>: > > I see that there are more than 6700 orphan packages. Of those, more than > > 2400 are also flagged out of date (some packages have not been updated > since > > 2007). > > Many packages are only waiting for a new maintainer but I think that many > > are only waiting to be scrapped as they're already been replaced by some > > other package in the AUR or in the community repository (or just become > > obsolete). > > > > I'm wondering if the time has come to look into them to find out what > worth > > to keep and what have to be removed and thus do some cleanup. > > > > If can be useful, I can start working on it. > > > > Keeping the user repository clean and up-to-date sounds very KISS and > Arch to me, but some criteria should be stated. Many packages that > depend on python v2, for instance, are simply broken because they were > not properly updated to reflect repository changes [1]. The goal with > these packages should likely be to adapt the build, not consider them > broken. > > Perhaps create a page on the wiki so that this work can be shared with > others in the community. Such a page might also allow us to have a > nice final list that can be fed to the nearest TU in one go, rather > than a flood of deletion requests. > > Should you initiate this, I would surely help out. Who knows what fun > software one might run into :) > > [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/ Maybe we should have some category system to help manage the PKGBUILDs in AUR.We can tag them by "package whith third-party patch" , "CVS package" ,"SVN package","GIT package","nightly builds","Beta version","need review","need to be dropped" and so on.Let the community vote for each tag to produce a squence of some tag ie. "need to be dropped" to let the TUs working on.
