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

[Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>]

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