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

    From Joonas Niilola@21:1/5 to Joonas Niilola on Fri Oct 20 20:30:01 2023
    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

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