MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for oyepa [2]:

I think it's better to delete this Python2 PyQt4 GUI based file
organizer from 2011, which was only an experiment, not something
intended for production use. It brands itself a "tagging file system
emulator".

I don't think it's useful for users. In fact it seems quite
cumbersome.

And it depends on discontinued, unmaintained components like PyQt4 and
python2-pyinotify (whose upstream is not changed since 2014). Those
two AUR packages do not follow the Arch Python package guidelines and
PyPA's recommendations regarding the migration to setuptools from
stdlib's deprecated distutils.

There are other tools that help users organize files better.

PyQt4 as of now is a dual Python2/Python3 package, broken on Python
3.12. But oyepa is the only mandatory consumer of either PyQt4
subpackage that seems maintained on AUR. Almost all other packages are
broken, and none of them are maintained or used, so they can be delete
as well. Some packages have updates to port them to Python3/Qt5. It
seems PyQt4 itself can soon be retired.

AUR submission guidelines say that packages kept there should be
useful for / required by more than a few people. I think there is no
evidence for this being a package that qualifies.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/oyepa/

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