I understand . . . . no longer being developed. The big question is what was the purpose to begin with? Everything begins with an understanding maybe software programs can have a purpose or need to fulfill, and at some point fails because it suffers from time constraints and programmers not willing to spend time programming to improve functionality. So what are we left with? The very nature of programming and hardware improvements make this all a slippery slope for everyone. Nothing is static. . . everything is all on a moving conveyor. . . Windblow’s was the prime metric. . . it worked until they decided to make your computer theirs, your money was theirs and then they decided to take away everyone’s freedom by packaging everything into a proprietary quagmire that nobody wants, needs or willing to pay for. It’s a dilemma . . . pull the plug on all of this and see what’s left. . .
With my AUR-Packages, I can run yay -Syu as before, cause all tests against Lenucksi’s list were negative. The storm is over for me.
Here’s my list, and I had to get AUR-Packages in the midst of the malware storm, but I had scanned the packages like the pope himself, so intensively.
It cannot appear in the orphan list due it’s an AUR-Package, right?
Is there a command for AUR orphrans?
But it must have been a dependency a while ago (2025-08-02)
definitely two schools of thought on that one, I like your honesty. I’ve had a developer tell me at another distro that unused packages, accumulation, and extra packages don’t do any harm to anything as far as performance so I figured he would know. That’s a common Linux POV.
The flip side is if you were using Windows right, you’d be getting a virus a day having to defrag monthly. Once I carried that baggage to Linux I realized Linux Don’t Play that Sh**.. So I took advantage having an environment I could keep clean and uncluttered.
Just nvidia drivers and some Gnome apps. low risk AUR setup IMHO. Not sure how I feel yet about traur, but I’m just waiting for an AUR update to check out its hook.
It is not only about drive space but also the time it takes during a update, the packages get build the same way as when first installed. Furthermore if you are worried about malicious packets (I misunderstood that yesterday to be honest) the less you have from the AUR the better, but that is just how I see it, you might think different.
Doing a quick search about stacer I came across this site.
But in general if you want to know something about what a package does one way of ffinding out is to look for it in Pacseek and in the right column you will find some links you can click on.
On another note in my opinion the AUR is not another repository that would be needed for your system (in general, there are always exceptions) so it contains packages that are uploaded and maintained by ARCH users, ofcourse if a maintainer stops to maintain a package there is not a lot you can do about it. That is the nature of the AUR and users should realize this before using the AUR.
it’s empty,