Compared to the discontinued, experimental, barebones, alpha stage oyepa, the following actively developed application seems to be way more mature and useful for the same purpose:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tagspaces On 17 October 2023 09:40:35 GMT+02:00, not...@aur.archlinux.org wrote: >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/
