On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 08:12:10PM +0100, Balló György wrote: > Sad news. You did a great job on maintaining PackageKit's alpm backend > in the recent years. Thanks for your work, and good luck! > > If nobody step up porting the alpm backend to PackageKit version 0.8 > (huge work!), I'll drop the following packages from the [community] > repository in the next days: > - apper > - gnome-settings-daemon-updates > - gnome-packagekit > - packagekit > - packagekit-qt2 > - python2-packagekit > > -- > György Balló > Trusted User
Why the rush to drop these packages ? Currently it is working, when none of the TU/DEV are willing/able to continue the development of the alpm backend for packagekit and at some point things break, then it would be a good time to drop those packages from community. -- Ike
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