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

Thu Nov 24 10:49:15 CET 2011

2011/11/24 Kamil Rytarowski <n54 at gmx.com>
+
+> On 24.11.2011 00:36, andre999 wrote:
+>
+>> Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
+>>
+>>> Hello!
+>>>
+>>> As a maintainer of pastebin ( http://raphael.slinckx.net/**files/<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 :)
+>>
+>>
+> Now we need pastebin.mageia.org :)
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