On 30 April 2011 17:48, Stefan Husmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 30.04.2011 10:10, schrieb Allan McRae: >> >> On 30/04/11 17:36, Loui Chang wrote: >>> >>> On Sat 30 Apr 2011 16:12 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >>>> >>>> On 30/04/11 12:25, Loui Chang wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49 -0400, keenerd wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I would like to move Aurphan into community. I've added a number of >>>>>> features to it lately, and it has become an automated means of >>>>>> answering "what can I do to help Arch", parsing and summarizing the >>>>>> todo list, the bugtracker and the orphans. The one random dev I've >>>>>> asked seems cool with it, however he thought a wider consensus should >>>>>> be found. It has enough votes but.... >>>>>> >>>>>> Aurphan could be considered an AUR helper. By default it searches the >>>>>> AUR for AUR packages you already have installed. It does not download >>>>>> anything. >>>>>> >>>>>> I will change it so the default behavior does not search the AUR. >>>>>> (New default would display the --help) I won't change the name, on >>>>>> account of it being cute. >>>>> >>>>>> aur page: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43726 >>>>>> project page: http://kmkeen.com/aurphan/ >>>>> >>>>> This script seems like a really nice idea, but if it deals with >>>>> unsupported packages it should remain in that domain. Maybe move the >>>>> functionality that deals with unsupported into an add-on that you can >>>>> install separately? >>>> >>>> We should also drop wget, curl and firefox from the repos as they can be >>>> used to download unsupported packages... In fact, this script is safer >>>> because it does not even do that. >>> >>> Allan, I appreciate your work but you completely missed the point. >>> wget, curl and firefox do not contain functionality to specifically >>> access the unsupported packages. They are general network programs. >>> >>> I guess it depends on what your vision is. If you want more people >>> expecting support for unsupported packages, then put these scripts into >>> extra or community. I can't stop you, I'm just a lowly nobody and you're >>> a big bad dev. >> >> My point was that (as far as I can tell) this software does nothing with >> AUR packages other than collates a bit of information. It does not allow >> downloading or building packages. I find it difficult to see how this could >> be seen as supporting AUR packages. >> >> Allan >> >> > I think aurphan does not support aur packages but it eases to have better > quality of the AUR as such, in recruiting more maintainers and having less > orphaned packages there. We should support this. So go for it, Kyle!
Let me just confirm this: it is the first of its kind, in that it "communicates" with the AUR. There is no other tool in the repos that makes a connection to the AUR, right? -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
