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What packages would you like to se inn our repositories?

Aardwolf 8y 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 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/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/closure-compiler/
- Foxboron 8y 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 8y 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
    - Aelius 8y ago
      Honestly I've always found MTP to be incredibly slow and sometimes unreliable. I personally just install termux, which allows you to install openssh. Run sshd and then you can use rsync or scp or sshfs or other from the host PC.
    - bscphil 8y ago
      There's a very nice open source sshd daemon based on dropbear that I use. Doesn't require root or anything. I use it for pretty much all my file transfer needs. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander.sshd https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander...
    - pritambaral 8y ago
      KDE Connect allows transferring individual files or browsing the Android filesystem, in addition to all its other goodies.
- chungy 8y 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.
hardenedmetapod 8y ago
>Not spelling AUR right Honestly AUR has covered everything I've needed.
- Foxboron 8y ago
  I package for Arch so the question is what the author wants in our repositories. Not in AUR.

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 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/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/closure-compiler/

Foxboron 8y 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 8y 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
  - Aelius 8y ago
    Honestly I've always found MTP to be incredibly slow and sometimes unreliable. I personally just install termux, which allows you to install openssh. Run sshd and then you can use rsync or scp or sshfs or other from the host PC.
  - bscphil 8y ago
    There's a very nice open source sshd daemon based on dropbear that I use. Doesn't require root or anything. I use it for pretty much all my file transfer needs. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander.sshd https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander...
  - pritambaral 8y ago
    KDE Connect allows transferring individual files or browsing the Android filesystem, in addition to all its other goodies.
chungy 8y 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.

hardenedmetapod 8y ago

>Not spelling AUR right Honestly AUR has covered everything I've needed.

Foxboron 8y ago
I package for Arch so the question is what the author wants in our repositories. Not in AUR.