[Mageia-dev] Proposition to drop the package "pastebin" from Mageia

Thu Nov 24 10:08:11 CET 2011

On 24.11.2011 00:36, andre999 wrote:
+> Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
+>> Hello!
+>>
+>> As a maintainer of pastebin ( http://raphael.slinckx.net/files/ )my 
+>> proposition is to drop it, because:
+>> - it's redundand for better&newer&more featured wgetpaste
+>> - it doesn't seem to be updated upstream for years
+>>
+>> I can maintain it, but I would like to know that someone it really 
+>> needs. I don't see any rational reason to ship it - wgetpaste fully 
+>> supercedes it.
+>>
+>> In its place (or next to it) I've imported susepaste. It's well 
+>> supported upstream and also supports screenshot (of a single window 
+>> or full-screen) paste feature.
+>>
+> In general that sounds good.
+>
+> Being only a user of pastebins, I have some concerns about flexibility 
+> of the width.  Normally when using a pastebin, one wants to make 
+> reference to another window.  Having a pastebin with flexible width is 
+> a big plus.  (Like the old wiki.)
+>
+> The reference you give redirects to dpaste.com, which wastes width on 
+> the large left margin, as well as the fixed width of the body.
+> (dpaste.com is better than pastebin.com, which has a much larger fixed 
+> width.)
+>
+> A much better pastebin is Lodgit (paste.pocoo.org), which has small 
+> left/right margins, and fully flexible width.
+> Another plus is a large number of file types.  (Conveniently ranged in 
+> alphabetical order.)
+> They list the software used for their site at 
+> http://paste.pocoo.org/about/ (near the bottom of the page).
+>
+Thank you for your feedback!
+wgetpaste supports multiple pastebins, the result of the "-S" command is:
+$ wgetpaste -S
+Services supported: (case sensitive):
+    Name:    | Url:
+    =========|=================
+     ca      | http://pastebin.ca/
+     codepad | http://codepad.org/
+     dpaste  | http://dpaste.com/
+     osl     | http://pastebin.osuosl.org/
+    *pocoo   | http://paste.pocoo.org/
+
+And pastebin supports http://en.pastebin.ca/
+> I don't know how that compares to wgetpaste or susepaste, but thought 
+> you might like to consider it.
+>
+I'm not sure Fedora Paste or openSUSE Paste are better than the previous 
+ones, but I would ship them (and I will maintain them), because of the 
+constant support from the upstream.
+
++ the handy screenshot feature from openSUSE!
+> Regards :)
+>
+
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