On 21/09/2009, Smartboy <[email protected]> wrote: > I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which > could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got: > > audacious-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26394>, > audacious-plugins-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26395>: > Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2 > minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without > hurting anything. > > bang <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15238>: > This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build > anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained > upstream. > > beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver: > Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2 > years now. These can be removed. > > cairo-newspr <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16587>: > Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned > it. I see no reason for this package to stick around. > > catalyst-vanilla <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24451>: > Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old > maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be > reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD. > > ejourn <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2772>: > Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been > updated in 3 years. It should be deleted. > > enna-cvs <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14653>: > e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted. > > php4-gtk <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=730>: > This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been > updated in years. > > qtpoveditor <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2719>: > Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either. > > rstatd <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2557>: > Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005. > > Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;) > Smartboy really thank you man. all deleted.
-- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
