Delete all infinality packages—or revive them, but lets stop the bit rot

[alerque]

I maintain or co-maintain a large number of font packages with infinality configs. A while back I started a long process of overhauling them from being duplicates of their normal font package cousins to being split packages that only have the infinality configs in a separate package. This approach is much cleaner to package and removes duplicates and lots of conflicting packages. If anybody actually uses infinality I'll keep working on this cleanup. However I've gotten the impression that it might finally be completely obsolete for everybody. I'm going to put out some feelers looking for signs of life. If anybody still actively uses infinality patches and needs the fonts speak up. If I don't get any solid signs of life I'll probably start applying to have all the related packages deleted entirely.

[SolarAquarion]

i suppose a cleanup would be better although patches come whenever

[alerque]

You might be right — but who would it be better for? For all the people not using Infinality having them deleted entirely would be better. Only for people that actually use Infinality would clean packages be better. Is that a non-zero number? And is it non-zero because somebody wants it that way now or just because they stopped updating a system a decade ago? My observation of comments and votes on Infinality related packages suggest the educated choice / active use numbers might have hit zero. If it's zero we're being silly.

[SolarAquarion]

I guess I'm being silly because most of the .conf settings have been dropped from infinality even?

[alerque]

Just another tidbit from the Arch BBS: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1683277#p1683277