Packages

This package contains vague terminology “MP3 Player”:

community/gmtp 1.3.10-2
    A simple MP3 player client for MTP based devices

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “MP3 Player”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#MP3Player

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “MP3 Player”.

eg.

A simple audio player client for MTP based devices

This package contains vague terminology “Vendor”:

extra/kdb 3.0.1.1-2
    A database connectivity and creation framework for various database vendors

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Vendor”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Vendor

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Vendor”.

eg.

A database connectivity and creation framework for various database suppliers

This package contains vague terminology “Vendor”:

extra/publicsuffix-list 20170118.560.45a2bf8-1
    Cross-vendor public domain suffix database

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Vendor”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Vendor

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Vendor”.

eg.

Cross-supplier public domain suffix database

This package contains vague terminology “Vendor”:

community/glide 0.12.3-1
    Dependency management and vendoring for Go projects

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Vendor”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Vendor

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Vendor”.

eg.

Dependency management and suppliering for Go projects

This package contains vague terminology “Vendor”:

community/ndiswrapper-dkms 1.60.20160717-1
    Module for NDIS (Windows Network Drivers) drivers supplied by vendors.Use with DKMS

According to:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

We shall avoid vague terminology such as “Vendor”, please see here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Vendor

It would be good example to set to have proper description of packages without using “Vendor”.

eg.

Module for NDIS (Windows Network Drivers) drivers.Use with DKMS

Description:

community/ext3grep 0.10.2-4
    A tool to investigate an ext3 file system for deleted content and possibly recover it

Description is vague because of the word “content”. Why not say instead “data”?

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Description:

community/webfs 1.21-13
    Simple and instant http server for mostly static content.

Description is vague because of the word “content”. Why not simply say “files” instead and be more specific.

Even empty files without data inside can be served.

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content

Description:

community/openstreetmap-map-icons-svn 31588-1 [installed]
    A set of public domain licensed map icons for general OSM use

It is questionable if it is “Licensed” or dedicated.

See the file:
/usr/share/licenses/openstreetmap-map-icons/svg-twotone/LICENSE.txt

it does not matter if the file is named “LICENSE”, it could be also named anyhow else.

There must be reason why the organization Creative Commons is not using the word “License” in that text, and that is why I propose to simply say in description:

    A set of public domain map icons for general OSM use

community/autoconf-archive 1:2017.03.21-1
    A collection of freely re-usable Autoconf macros

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FreelyAvailable

Don’t use “freely available software” as a synonym for “free software.” The terms are not equivalent. Software is “freely available” if anyone can easily get a copy. “Free software” is defined in terms of the freedom of users that have a copy of it. These are answers to different questions.

community/python-biopython 1.69-1
    Freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FreelyAvailable

Don’t use “freely available software” as a synonym for “free software.” The terms are not equivalent. Software is “freely available” if anyone can easily get a copy. “Free software” is defined in terms of the freedom of users that have a copy of it. These are answers to different questions.

community/python2-biopython 1.69-1
    Freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FreelyAvailable

Don’t use “freely available software” as a synonym for “free software.” The terms are not equivalent. Software is “freely available” if anyone can easily get a copy. “Free software” is defined in terms of the freedom of users that have a copy of it. These are answers to different questions.

Description:

community/man-pages-de 1.22-1
     German Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-ru 4.08_2329_2272_20170321-2
     Russian Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-zh_cn 1.6.3.1-1
     Simplified Chinese Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description:

community/man-pages-zh_tw 1.6.3.1-1
     Traditional Chinese Linux man pages

See:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux

Description: Per a user request and to better secure the kernel, we can embed the cryptsetup and ciphers in the kernel. This would mean rather than exposed modules, they are built-in to the kernel and ready to use even without an intramfs.

To be embedded: ciphers aes, twofish, serpent; sha256, sha512 - and the necessary modules (don’t forget the block modes xts, lvm and cryptsetup …)

Additionally, we could include USB Guard and any other features that meet our social contract and security outlook.

“appmenu-qt4”[0][2] is a deprecated package (release in 2012)[1] and use qt4 unsupported/non-lts software[3], but “appmenu-qt5” not contains any release source code[2]

$ pacman -Si appmenu-qt4
Repository : community
Name : appmenu-qt4
Version : 0.2.6-1
Description : Export Qt4 applications menus over D-Bus
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt Licenses : GPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : libdbusmenu-qt4
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : appmenu-qt
Replaces : appmenu-qt
Download Size : 16.55 KiB
Installed Size : 48.00 KiB
Packager : Antonio Rojas arojas@archlinux.org Build Date : Tue 28 Feb 2017 05:59:31 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

[0]:https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt (qt4)
[1]:https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt/+download [2]:https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt5 [3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_5.6_LTS

Add “3proxy”[0] package

Useful for tor on ftp proxy[1]

[0]:https://github.com/z3APA3A/3proxy [1]:https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/FTP

We already have i3lock, this version is an enhanced version available in Arch AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3lock-color https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i3lock-color-git/

Iosevka wins a poll about most beautiful fonts on reddit (/r/linux). This font is very similar than Droid Sans (Official Google Font) with many advantages:

1 - Has 5 types modes (lightest, light, normal, bold, super bold)
2 - Condensed and big sizes (perfect for visual impairments users)
3 - Very Legible on i3-wm, Sway, Conky bar
4 - OTF license (Freedom license)

Iosevka is already on AUR, but create a official package prevent bug or proprietary third parties apps (Yaourt, etc) be installed by beginners Hyperbola users.

Official Site:
https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

On AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-iosevka

Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.

Please implement plymouth as an optional package.

Yaics is a simple GNU social client written in C++ and Qt and licensed under the GNU GPL 3.0 (or later).

Please implement yaics as an optional package.

https://stigatle.no/yaics/

https://gitlab.com/stigatle/yaics

Sirikata a platform for virtual worlds.

Sirikata is a platform for virtual worlds. We provide a set of libraries and protocols which can be used to deploy a virtual world, as well as fully featured sample implementations of services for hosting and deploying these worlds.

Please implement sirikata as an optional package.

Hello,

Could it be possible to add this package :

multipath-tools

“Multipath tools for Linux (including kpartx)”

License : GPL2

to the repo ?

Thank you

I know that upgrading Qt is not a trivial task, but would it be possible to do this anyway? Qt 5.8 has issues that other versions do not have. See for example the discussion here about Projecteur, a very useful tool. Hyperbola seems to be the only Linux distribution unable to run it, just because of Qt 5.8:

https://github.com/jahnf/Projecteur/issues/26