Comment by Foxboron

8 years ago

What packages would you like to se inn our repositories?

9 comments

Foxboron

Reply
Aardwolf  8 years ago

Imho, especially things that are important solutions to common things on the Archwiki but are AUR, indicated with the AUR superscript there.

For example for MTP: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Media_Transfer_Protocol The one that worked most stable for me was simple-mtpfs, but it's AUR.

It happens with other archwiki topics too, I encounter it regularly though can't think of good examples from the top of my head currently. E.g. the btrfs article mentions several AUR utilities though admittedly nothing important I need right now :)

And then some important development tools, like closure-compiler https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/closure-compiler/

  • Foxboron  8 years ago

    >simple-mtpfs

    Not maintained (last commit in 2016). So that will be something low on the priority list.

    >btrfs

    The dedupe tool looks interesting. Noted on my todo.

    >closure-compiler

    Was dropped from the repository. Probably because of the lack of an maintainer.

    • Aardwolf  8 years ago

      > Not maintained (last commit in 2016). So that will be something low on the priority list.

      I see! Time for me to start looking for a new method of transfering files from android then, thanks for the heads up

      3 replies →

  • chungy  8 years ago

    For MTP: gvfs-mtp is in the main repos, and pretty much the fullest-featured MTP implementation that exists, which includes all the extensions Android made to it to turn it into a block-oriented file system.

    Honestly, MTP is terrible on every OS though. Mac and Windows have it a _lot_ worse for interacting with MTP devices.