Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via aur-general
On 1/27/19 7:20 AM, Christian Rebischke via aur-general wrote: [...] > nor are they unused only because they are orphaned. > > I prefer having a big archive of orphaned packages with the chance that > somebody adopts the package and finds a PKGBUILD as base to work on. I agree. > Or are there

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-27 Thread Robin Broda via aur-general
On 1/27/19 1:20 PM, Christian Rebischke via aur-general wrote: > I don't understand why we should delete orphaned packages in the AUR at > all. They are not harmful (like blowing up our repository like it would > do in community) nor are they unused only because they are orphaned. > > I prefer

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-27 Thread Christian Rebischke via aur-general
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 07:04:28PM -0500, Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) wrote: > On 1/22/19 12:16 AM, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: > > Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a > > little purge. The candidates can be found here: > > > >

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-26 Thread Alad Wenter via aur-general
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 08:50:48PM -0500, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: > Quoting David Runge (2019-01-26 05:23:37) > > On 2019-01-26 08:01:46 (+0100), Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > > > Not too long after I became TU I deleted something of ~2000 packages, > > > based on similar

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-26 Thread Daniel M. Capella via aur-general
Quoting David Runge (2019-01-26 05:23:37) > On 2019-01-26 08:01:46 (+0100), Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > > Not too long after I became TU I deleted something of ~2000 packages, > > based on similar "criteria" and after seeing no "objections" on IRC > > after a while. After the deed was

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-26 Thread Eli Schwartz via aur-general
On 1/22/19 12:16 AM, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: > Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a > little purge. The candidates can be found here: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0=nd==on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans >

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-26 Thread David Runge
On 2019-01-26 08:01:46 (+0100), Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote: > Not too long after I became TU I deleted something of ~2000 packages, > based on similar "criteria" and after seeing no "objections" on IRC > after a while. After the deed was done I got emails, angry shouting on > IRC and

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-25 Thread Alad Wenter via aur-general
Not too long after I became TU I deleted something of ~2000 packages, based on similar "criteria" and after seeing no "objections" on IRC after a while. After the deed was done I got emails, angry shouting on IRC and complaints for the following 6 months on BBS and other places. If you want

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-22 Thread hagar
On 22/1/19 2:18 pm, hagar wrote: On 22/1/19 1:16 pm, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a little purge. The candidates can be found here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0=nd==on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans

Re: [aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-21 Thread hagar
On 22/1/19 1:16 pm, Daniel M. Capella via aur-general wrote: Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a little purge. The candidates can be found here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0=nd==on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans

[aur-general] Purge of packages orphaned, out-of-date, and last updated before 2017

2019-01-21 Thread Daniel M. Capella via aur-general
Based on the loosely defined "cleanup criteria"[], we're overdue for a little purge. The candidates can be found here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0=nd==on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=250=nd=on=l=a=250_Orphans=Orphans Please run `aurphan -a` to see if