[gentoo-dev] Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[gentoo-dev] Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[Joonas Niilola]

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Upstream is totally abandoned with no updates for 2 years. The situation
has spawned multiple forks and there are different maintained
alternatives available now in Gentoo's repository. To list a few:
fastfetch, hyfetch, screenfetch

If you're aware of more/better alternatives, please add them to the
package.mask file at your will. Bug #916040

-- juippis

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[Pascal Jaeger]

This is only two years without a release. We have packages way way older
than that.
I know fetch scripts have a reputation, but this thing is kind
of a staple in the community and it is still widely used.

I can jump in as a proxy maintainer if that is the problem.

Pascal

Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> writes:

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> Upstream is totally abandoned with no updates for 2 years. The situation
> has spawned multiple forks and there are different maintained
> alternatives available now in Gentoo's repository. To list a few:
> fastfetch, hyfetch, screenfetch
>
> If you're aware of more/better alternatives, please add them to the
> package.mask file at your will. Bug #916040
>
> -- juippis
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[Joonas Niilola]

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On 20.10.2023 15.30, Pascal Jaeger wrote:
> 
> This is only two years without a release. We have packages way way older
> than that.
> I know fetch scripts have a reputation, but this thing is kind
> of a staple in the community and it is still widely used.
> 
> I can jump in as a proxy maintainer if that is the problem.
> 
> Pascal
> 

Hey,

I was looking at these metrics:
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/branches/active
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/branches
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pulls

and it's not looking good. Do we have the wrong upstream in our current
ebuild?
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/neofetch

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[Andrew Ammerlaan]

On 20/10/2023 14:39, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> On 20.10.2023 15.30, Pascal Jaeger wrote:
>>
>> This is only two years without a release. We have packages way way older
>> than that.
>> I know fetch scripts have a reputation, but this thing is kind
>> of a staple in the community and it is still widely used.
>>
>> I can jump in as a proxy maintainer if that is the problem.
>>
>> Pascal
>>
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I was looking at these metrics:
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/branches/active
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/branches
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pulls
> 
> and it's not looking good. Do we have the wrong upstream in our current
> ebuild?
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/neofetch

Other distro's seem to have the same upstream, so I guess it is correct: 
https://repology.org/project/neofetch/information

Best regards,
Andrew

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[Jonas Stein]

> Hey,
> 
> I was looking at these metrics:
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/branches/active
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/branches
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues
> https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pulls
> 
> and it's not looking good. Do we have the wrong upstream in our current
> ebuild?
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/neofetch

Here is a statement from upstream:
https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commit/d23de5835657d9144938deabd570fe7554d8fe94

-- 
Best,
Jonas

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last-rite: app-misc/neofetch

[Joonas Niilola]

On 20.10.2023 10.38, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Upstream is totally abandoned with no updates for 2 years. The situation
> has spawned multiple forks and there are different maintained
> alternatives available now in Gentoo's repository. To list a few:
> fastfetch, hyfetch, screenfetch
> 
> If you're aware of more/better alternatives, please add them to the
> package.mask file at your will. Bug #916040
> 
> -- juippis

Hey,

so my reason for removal was that the upstream issue number is growing
weekly and there's no one fixing them. Apparently a new fork was made
where the new authors have been fixing bugs / merging PRs from neofetch
and it seemed reasonable to switch to that. But neofetch does do the job
of showing Gentoo-logo just fine I guess...

but I also want to point out it's literally a single wgettable bash
script and I personally don't see much value in keeping it, but people
seem to love it too much :) so let's keep it. And I agree, neofetch is
the original, it has a legendary status.

-- juippis