On Jun 1, 2012 10:03 PM, "Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo" < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there! > > Few days ago I’ve installed Archlinux on my laptop again. One of the > first changes I’ve noticed in my *.archlinux.org accounts was loosing > all packages I was maintaining in AUR. > > It’s completely understandable because I was the one to say in one of > my comments that I hope to never use Arch again… but here I am having > Arch on the second partition, next to Gentoo. > > The idea is to add some tracking of AUR package maintainers (I’m not > sure if there isn’t some system like this first part already). If they > have more than some number of packages out of date and they haven’t > been logged in some time lets orphan their packages. This is how it is > working now but manually. > > The next step is retrieval. If our maintainer logged in again and he’s > pushing some new packages to AUR lets bring him his packages. But not > all, only those which are still orphaned. > > Such automation will be IMO a big improvement to the whole system. Just > an idea, but if anyone is interested in implementing it I’ll be glad to > help. > > -- > Regards > Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo > http://sirmacik.net
Somehow I don't see the "stopped using arch for a long while and now coming back and wanting his packages back" demographic to be significantly large...
