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Annoyingduck

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XFCE4-Places Plugin Not In Official Repo??

Not sure where to post this, but just curious as to why the xfce4-places plugin is not in the official repositories? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce4-places-plugin.  It's very much an XFCE standard.  How do official repository requests get handled, and where is the place to discuss it?

loqs

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Re: XFCE4-Places Plugin Not In Official Repo??

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jasonwryan

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Re: XFCE4-Places Plugin Not In Official Repo??

Not a Pacman issue, moving to AUR Issues...

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Annoyingduck

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Re: XFCE4-Places Plugin Not In Official Repo??

So if I understand this correctly, basically there is no request option on the user end. The way that an AUR packages become official is by users voting on them, and if a TU decides to adopt the package it'll then go to the community repo? Is there a way to present package options to a TU, or is it just kinda understood that a TU has or will eventually look at all AUR packages and make the decision?  I mainly ask because of 2 primary packages that are very common and are in the repositories of other distros (I know...don't flip out on me for saying that!): 1 being XFCE4-Places-Plugin and the other being GTKHash & it's individual file manager plugins.  Both are very popular and "common" programs.  I guess I'm more curious as to why they are not in the repos.

Scimmia

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Re: XFCE4-Places Plugin Not In Official Repo??

Your definition of "popular" is very different than mine, then.

Annoyingduck

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Re: XFCE4-Places Plugin Not In Official Repo??

That is true, popular is the wrong term as that's open to interpretation.  I think standard may be a better term. Kinda like how a there are so many calculators, but the "standard" gtk ones would be gnome-calculator or gcalculator.  Both calculators I would describe as common and standard for most typical user installations and would seem weird if they weren't in the repos. Obviously this is my opinion, but I certainly think that they are standard, common applications.