[aur-general] Deletion Request - rEFIt

[Justin Dray]

Slim had a decent sized update about 2 weeks ago, it started supporting the
normal xsession methods rather than a specific list and a variety of other
things, the version before that was less than a week old. It's stable, but
certainly not dead.

Regards,
Justin Dray
E: justin at dray.be
M: 0433348284


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sam Stuewe <halosghost at archlinux.info>wrote:

> On 2013-10-15 13:56, Keshav Padram Amburay wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>      rEFIt is no longer maintained upstream and its author recommends
>> everyone to switch to rEFInd instead, at http://refit.sourceforge.net/ .
>> So
>> please delete AUR refit https://aur.archlinux.org/**packages/refit/<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refit/>package.
>>
>> With Best Regards,
>>
>> Keshav
>>
>
> I am not a TU, so this is not an official set of logic, but if the sources
> still exist (even if it has been deprecated or is no longer maintained), I
> see no reason for the package to be removed unless there is a specific and
> blatant security flaw. For example, SLiM is still in the official repos
> despite maintenance largely being dead and many other packages being
> considered preferable.
>
> If people would like to continue using rEFIt, despite rEFInd's
> superiority, I don't see the inherent issue.
>
> All the best,
>
> -Sam
>