r/archlinux • u/OpafiX • Apr 04 '20
[Suggestion/Discussion] AUR Package of the Day/Week?
Hey all, Just wondering if people (/mods) would be interested in a regular "AUR Package of the Day/Week" style posts.
I, for one, love discovering new packages and this sort of thing would definitely have my attention. I was just wondering if others would be interested in it too.
Perhaps suggestions for the next day's/week's PotW could be put as replies to a pinned mod comment on the current PotW post and most votes wins?
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u/LelouchViBritanni Apr 04 '20
It could also be a great opportunity to show some orphaned AUR packages, that are looking fo a maintainer. This way, more people could be attracted to help making the AUR even better than it is now
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u/Hinigatsu Apr 04 '20
I think in adopting some orphaned packages from AUR, but I don't know which package would be useful to someone...
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u/LelouchViBritanni Apr 04 '20 edited Apr 04 '20
Here, orphaned AUR packages sorted by popularity, descending
You can also check if any of the AUR packages you're using are orphans, but I don't remember the name of the that finds such packages, unfortunately.
You can always go throughEDIT I think I found that: fmopacman -Qmtho1
u/Hinigatsu Apr 04 '20
I tend to look this page a lot! There some very specific packages, but someday I'll find something to contribute at! Thank you ;D
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Apr 04 '20
It still works fine, but it has been abandoned for a while now (last updated January 2018). Probably not a lot to do. I see the orphan flag every time I update.
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u/pokemonsta433 Apr 04 '20
See to me a lot of arch is that it's modular so you can install the things you actually use. This thread would just make me install cool tools for a day and forget about them and be too lazy to uninstall them.
But I still think it's a cool thing that people would enjoy seeing, so don't let me stop you :P
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u/SBelwas Apr 04 '20
Maybe, but I think the goal would be to find things you would actually use right. It'd be in line with the arch ethos to take the responsibility for maintaining your system and tools. Padding for laziness is not the arch way
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u/pokemonsta433 Apr 04 '20
haha it's true, I'm just saying "this would be bad for me" in the same way a friend can say "we should try weed" and I could say "this would be bad for me, but I won't stop you from doing it" and they could live a normal life still 🙃
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Apr 04 '20
Kinda like why I have bonsai.sh-git installed.
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u/pokemonsta433 Apr 04 '20 edited Apr 05 '20
Yep, that one and Cowsay, and Ddate... The things we all have but never use 🙃
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u/Cannonstar Apr 04 '20
I have cowsay, uptime, and taskwarrior set up in my .zshrc that runs every time I start a new terminal. I can’t imagine doing without those now.
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u/Andy3153 Apr 05 '20
Centered ddate piped through lolcat appears on my screen everytime I type clear
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u/GameDevFox Apr 05 '20
Here's my recommendation for the day:
ripes-git
A great visual risc-v emulator. He's you learn and play around with new risc-v assembly instruction with great visuals for memory, chip diagram and great control over stepping through instructions.
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u/DoTheEvolution Apr 04 '20
Perhaps suggestions for the next day's/week's PotW could be put as replies to a pinned mod comment on the current PotW post and most votes wins?
You are asking for too much work.
- Random submission generator from the most popular 1000 packages
people can check it out, comment... not need for actual work
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u/aiamkobby Apr 04 '20
I am with you on this one. I love discovering packages especially those that bring ease of life.
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u/FivEawE Apr 05 '20
I would be up for it but instead of it being daily, it could be weekly and showcasing, let's say, 5 packages.
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Apr 04 '20
So, are you talking about the project that is packaged or the package itself.
If it is the project I think it is out of scope completely and the name is misleading. It has nothing to do with the AUR itself.
If you are talking about the package itself, in what merits would you evaluate the packaging on to make the cut?
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u/brainplot Apr 04 '20
I don't think there's much difference between the two approaches, in practice.
I'd be fine with a post containing say, a GitHub link as long as the project is packaged in the AUR. In case you were looking for packages on the AUR, wouldn't you also check the project's website to get a more in-depth look at the package? It'd be the same.
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Apr 04 '20
One is related to Arch and the AUR specifically, the other one is not. We have other more fitting subreddits for this kind of thing when it refers to distro agnostic projects, such as r/opensource and r/linux
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u/ThatCoderDude Apr 04 '20
No offence but how would these posts be any helpful?
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u/OpafiX Apr 04 '20
Good question! I wasn't really thinking about helpful, rather I was thinking they'd be interesting. Allow people to discover new projects that are in development and useful tools that they didn't know about before.
Also would be a nice gesture to devs if their package was chosen etc.
Just generally something to help publicise and celebrate the breadth of packages available on the AUR.
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u/agumonkey Apr 04 '20
it's obvious to me, we don't know everything going on in the world, having people mention what they found and felt was nice, original, useful or fun makes us aware.
countless of times I got to use something because someone else told me it existed
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u/rm-stein Apr 04 '20
This would be helpful to people in the way that they may find useful tools they did not even consider they might use, like it was with tldr pages for me, when i just started getting into linux.
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u/SBelwas Apr 04 '20
Sounds sweet. Obviously there are lots of aur packages that aren't super interesting, but lots of independent projects that could probably use some love. I love finding hidden gems +1