lemmyvore

Is the current state of the AUR, despite the previous waves of attacks, and its troubled history, not evidence enough? The Arch team has never made the AUR a priority and I don’t see why they would start now.

The way I see it there are three possibilities:

• They do nothing.
• They shut it down.
• They give it up for adoption.

What is not going to happen is the Arch team putting time and effort into overhauling the AUR.

And you’re gonna see the Arch team wash their hands of the whole thing, like they did in the past whenever the AUR was in trouble.

That’s not real ownership.

The orphan package criteria is misleading. If you look at the infobox you’ll see that there are only 69 package “maintainers” for 100k+ packages.

They should find a better solution

Who’s “they”? Because it’s not Arch. Arch doesn’t want to have anything to do with AUR, and neither does any of the Arch-derived distros. They’re all perfectly happy taking advantage of it, of course, but not the responsibility.

Remove unmaintained packages and block the name for several months.

Alright, but that would mean most of AUR. Have a look at the package statistics box on the AUR homepage. Most packages fall under that definition in one way or another. The vast majority of the AUR is package some random person added once then never bothered with ever again.

Frankly I’m surprised that the AUR has survived for so long in its current form, for what is basically a shell script distribution system with zero supervision and zero safety guards.

They can also look for older R models, used. I have an R2 Arc Mini that can do 6 drives and it’s not too big.

If you think you might need more, get one with more slots up-front. Trying to add more HDD to a case that wasn’t designed for them sucks.

This kind of detail only matters if due process is still being observed.

There’s a scene that comes to mind from “The Yellow Tie” (2025) where a street patrol in Nazi Germany makes the protagonist strip naked just to have a laugh, then as they leave they wonder if they should’ve shot him anyway, despite not doing anything wrong.