Hi concierge9156
I’m an ordinary user who relies on the sandboxing packages from the
AUR. To my surprise, *a large number of these packages have been
removed* and the maintainer now points us to a separate PKGBUILD
repository.
According to the *AUR submission guidelines*, the AUR (and official
repos) are meant for “packages which install general software and
software‑related content, including … configuration file(s).” Sandbox
packages are precisely *configuration files that provide unique,
valuable features* for many users.
As explained to Kimiblock, the maintainer of many of all the sandboxed
packages recently deleted:
The sandboxed packages you refer are merely the same exact softwares, usually
unpatched, with a different packaging around.
There's not any action against the sandboxed packages at all, they
simply were duplicated packages with a different packaging method, an
invalid reason to upload a duplicated packages in the AUR.
Also:
For this reason I invite you to use the wiki to document how to apply a sandbox
the softwares, instead of having the same packages multiple times with
different packaging and maintainers.
If you mean to sandbox your applications use the wiki to get how to
package them for you but avoid to create duplicated packages for every
possible existing ways to re-packages a software.
Best regards
--
Muflone
