Arch holiday madness! nominations

Tes-- · 2010-12-13 12:07:33

Kupfer couldn't hurt I guess..

Also, another vote for radvd. You need it for IPv6 auto-configuration, and it would be pretty hard to create an IPv6 environment without it. I'm not amazed I'm not the only one wondering why it isn't in the official repositories.

Also a vote for ibus-qt, the qt wrappers for the ("new") foreign language input system. The rest of ibus is already in community, and it is pretty strange that you need to get an extra package from aur to get support in qt applications.

the_isz · 2010-12-13 13:16:57

I know that this case is basically closed, but the only package I'd really love
to have in the repos that isn't already there is awesome plus
cairo-xcb if needed...

SiD · 2010-12-13 13:53:48

Duologic wrote:

jsteel wrote:
dvdbackup - short of a few votes but it has only just been moved to AUR from extra. The best software I have found for backing up DVDs. Other software such as vobcopy (community) fail to backup a lot of my DVDs; dvdbackup has never let me down.
dvdbackup, this one has my vote. Just the easiest way to backup my DVDs. Use it at least weekly when I get a new dvd.

+1

tzervo · 2010-12-13 17:05:45

eboard -- Frontend for chess engines such as crafty and gnuchess. Recently moved to aur from community, don't know why. If the reason was serious, disregard it.

openmpi -- The most widespread message passing protocol implementation.

luakit-git -- A great webkit browser, much like uzbl ad jumanji, pretty much stable at that point.

clipbored-git -- Very nice clipboard tool. Also developed by an archer. Now that parcellite is left undeveloped maybe its time to make way to that excellent tool-ey. Plus it is ultralight and can be used in conjunction with dmenu.

freeswitch(-git) A very good VOIP engine.

There are a lot of others I'd like to see but I will stop here (crosses fingers )

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Inxsible · 2010-12-14 05:33:09

alleyoopster wrote:

packer - aur helper. Why? it's decent

AUR helpers are NEVER going into official repos EVER. They are AUR helpers, and have nothing to do with the official package managment of Arch. Its better that AUR helpers stay in AUR.

ghen · 2010-12-14 08:49:13

Unbound and NSD, from NLnetLabs. Modern, DNSSEC-ready recursive and authoritatve DNS servers, respectively.

NSD powers three root servers and several more TLD's. Unbound is backed by the very efficient ldns resolver library. ldns ships some example programs/tools which really should be packaged (separately) too.

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kgas · 2010-12-14 11:00:06

the good ones for me

teapot --- a simple command line calc like application
arno-iptables-firewall --- ready to go fire wall easy to use
batterymon --- a good alternative to ibamtray
deadbeef ---- simple music player
galculator ---- a calculator application
gonvert ---- unit converter
guvcview --- web cam recorder
obfilebrowser --- a simple fm to use with openbox
phonetooth ---- send sms from your PC (via bluetooth connection)
quickserve --- A simple and quick way of sharing your files
ranger --- a cute cl fm
ttf-droid --- nice font

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tomd123 · 2010-12-14 14:31:27

kgas wrote:

the good ones for me
teapot
arno-iptables-firewall
batterymon
deadbeef
galculator
gonvert
guvcview
obfilebrowser
phonetooth
quickserve
ranger
ttf-droid

you realize none of those are going to be considered (from you) because they have no reasons... read the first post people!

kgas · 2010-12-14 16:02:53

tomd123, I mentioned only the names because I felt the name itself self explanatory.

firecat53 · 2010-12-14 16:32:16

I realized I'd forgotten to include my reason for my vote --
Ranger: simply one of those pieces of software that gives me that feeling that it's one of the best, most intuitive, most functional pieces of software I've ever used. I tried to convince Hut to create a mail client with a Ranger base that would probably kick Mutt's butt

Scott

Pyntux · 2010-12-14 17:09:05

Deadbeef, I do not use this player but it's very good and I think Deadbeef should be in community. Redshiftgui it's also very good piece of software.

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schivmeister · 2010-12-14 19:03:06

ttf-ubuntu-font-family - If this is what is default in Ubuntu 10.10, then I say we should have this. I find it nice, being different from MS-lookalikes, eg. Liberation.

litemotiv · 2010-12-14 19:36:01

schivmeister wrote:

ttf-ubuntu-font-family - If this is what is default in Ubuntu 10.10, then I say we should have this. I find it nice, being different from MS-lookalikes, eg. Liberation.

Shouldn't we have the Ubuntu fontrendering then too?

cairo-ubuntu
freetype2-ubuntu
libxft-ubuntu
fontconfig-ubuntu

anonymous_user · 2010-12-14 19:50:53

Too bad we cannot include those patched packages in community.

tomd123 · 2010-12-15 01:53:02

kgas wrote:

tomd123, I mentioned only the names because I felt the name itself self explanatory.

This doesn't excuse you. I don't even know what half of those are, and the other half I can only guess at what they are from the name.
Not trying to be mean, but you're not going to get treated differently.

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thanos · 2010-12-15 12:08:51

Hello there!

I'd like to see Luckybackup in the community repo! Luckybackup (134 votes in AUR) it's a backup and synchronization tool powered by rsync,written in C++ and Qt for the GUI. (no kdelibs needed,if you wonder)
Take a look at the features of the program.It's easy and flexible to work with,easy to maintain it, and also I didn't find another rsync frontend in the official repos except from grsync.Give it a try!

So that's my reasons to nominate LB.

(and because the developer wants a Christmas gift from you! )

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alleyoopster · 2010-12-15 13:45:27

Inxsible wrote:

alleyoopster wrote:
packer - aur helper. Why? it's decent
AUR helpers are NEVER going into official repos EVER. They are AUR helpers, and have nothing to do with the official package managment of Arch. Its better that AUR helpers stay in AUR.

That's a no then?

Husky Puppy · 2010-12-15 18:37:31

Stefan Husmann wrote:

For simulations in this context: gtkwave http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8217

Don't forget the VHDL simulator ghdl. gtkwave is not very useful without it, because it's only a wave viewer and not a simulator.

Jojo12a · 2010-12-15 22:30:18

haskell-platform is the standard haskell distribution with batteries included.
bsnes is a SNES emulator designed to be exact, not fast.
mupen64plus is the only actively developed N64 emulator for linux that I know of.
moodbar generates moodbars for Amarok (should be added to optdepends).
projectm-pulseaudio generates cool visualizations for pulseaudio (projectm and pulseaudio are already in)
broadcom-wl supports my WLAN chip, Broadcom Corporation Device 4727, all other drivers don't.
slingshot is a cool 2d physics game.

Stefan Husmann · 2010-12-15 22:33:37

Husky Puppy wrote:

Stefan Husmann wrote:
For simulations in this context: gtkwave http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8217
Don't forget the VHDL simulator ghdl. gtkwave is not very useful without it, because it's only a wave viewer and not a simulator.

You are the second one who recommends that. The first one was in german forum. So it must be true.

tomd123 · 2010-12-15 22:36:47

Jojo12a wrote:

mupen64plus is the only actively developed N64 emulator for linux that I know of.

I used to maintain this, and I know for sure this isn't getting developed anymore. What is getting developed is mupen64plus-beta which is getting developed really slowly. This package also used to be in community before it got moved to the aur.

GogglesGuy · 2010-12-15 23:13:48

Inxsible wrote:

alleyoopster wrote:
packer - aur helper. Why? it's decent
AUR helpers are NEVER going into official repos EVER. They are AUR helpers, and have nothing to do with the official package managment of Arch. Its better that AUR helpers stay in AUR.

That makes no sense. 99% of all packages in the official package repository have nothing to do with "official package management of Arch". Perhaps www.archlinux.org shouldn't host the AUR either, because it has nothing to do with the official repositories. Why wouldn't a good tool that interacts with aur be in a repository?

anonymous_user · 2010-12-15 23:19:08

GogglesGuy wrote:

Why wouldn't a good tool that interacts with aur be in a repository?

Its been discussed before; just search the forums.

http://www.mail-archive.com/aur-general … 10551.html

GogglesGuy · 2010-12-15 23:19:20

mplayer-mt-git Perhaps the official package could just be modified, but it would be nice if mplayer can take advantage of 4-core machine while decoding hd-movies. For those people that don't have a vaapi capable driver / graphics card.

my0pic · 2010-12-15 23:40:55

I'd like to propose oblogout and ob-autostart for inclusion into community repos. Oblogout is a logout script for openbox which provides a graphical logout/suspend/shutdown screen and ob-autostart is an autostart application for openbox which easily allows you to add and prioritise programs to autostart on login. Both are graphical apps that I think would round out nicely the openbox offerings in the official repos.

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