Bug 916040 – app-misc/neofetch: remove package

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Joonas Niilola 2023-10-20 07:33:06 UTC]

Upstream is totally abandoned, it has spawned multiple forks and there are tons of different alternatives available now. I don't see a reason to keep this around.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/commits/master
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/pulls

Alternatives:
fastfetch, hyfetch, screenfetch and possibly many many more I'm missing.

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2023-10-20 07:35:35 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=31ecc4fc31ab5f17466594068389540e1b70d0ae

commit 31ecc4fc31ab5f17466594068389540e1b70d0ae
Author:     Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-10-20 07:34:48 +0000
Commit:     Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-10-20 07:34:48 +0000

    profiles: last-rite app-misc/neofetch
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916040
    Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>

 profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

[Comment 2 stefan11111 2023-10-20 11:09:42 UTC]

(In reply to Joonas Niilola from comment #0)
> Alternatives:
> fastfetch, hyfetch, screenfetch and possibly many many more I'm missing.

If you include ::guru and outside of default overlays:

$ doas emerge -s fetch | grep app-misc
*  app-misc/afetch
*  app-misc/cfetch
*  app-misc/cpufetch
*  app-misc/fastfetch
*  app-misc/fetsh
*  app-misc/hyfetch
*  app-misc/neofetch
*  app-misc/nerdfetch
*  app-misc/onefetch
*  app-misc/pfetch
*  app-misc/screenfetch
*  app-misc/twertlefetch
*  app-misc/ufetch
*  app-misc/uwufetch

[Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow 2023-10-20 18:29:07 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5ae918a2029471a3ded8c9d8bd6ec04ed151df20

commit 5ae918a2029471a3ded8c9d8bd6ec04ed151df20
Author:     Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-10-20 18:28:06 +0000
Commit:     Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-10-20 18:28:06 +0000

    profiles: cancel neofetch last-rites, see bug for more info
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/916040
    Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>

 profiles/package.mask | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

[Comment 4 Joonas Niilola 2023-10-20 18:29:59 UTC]

Copy-pasting my -dev post here:

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.