I guess the rationale is that no one is interested enough on uploading them after they have been dropped from community.
About why they have been dropped, see [ 1 ], [ 2 ] and [ 3 ], several threads on arch-dev-public ( sorted by date) [ 1 ] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025173.html [ 2 ] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025192.html [ 3 ] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-July/025260.html On 31 July 2013 19:25, Karol Blazewicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Compiz was removed from the repos > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/024956.html > but appeared in the AUR a good while later - 2013-07-11 , even though > Allan inquired about it in late May: > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/025022.html > > Recently ndiswrapper and cdfs have been removed from the repos but I > don't see them in the AUR. What is the rationale for this? Are the > other ndiswrapper / cdfs packages that are already in the AUR deemed > sufficient? Is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fuse-cdfs-git/ the > same as 'cdfs' package that used to be in the repos? > A word about why the package has been dropped .e.g 'doesn't work with > linux 3.10 kernel' would be helpful. > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusxmms/ has a comment that says > 'removed from community'. Mentioning > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36229 would be helpful. >
