We are nearing the point where Hyperbola as system is at the state we see being sufficient. Said pekwm was removed as in newer releases there are options to "download" themes and we decline this as we want the users at every point to decide and know what is installed and running on their system. Therefore to refer to the command "pekwm-themes" included in versions beyond v0.2.0.

It is no problem to maintain pekwm as separate package and offer it again from side of the community. But our offered packages are meant only to be in command of the users without any further connection until the users know about and exclusive want that. pekwm is offering a separate index for further sources to be downloaded and that is not our perspective for a package: It needs to be complete available without any option and need to download more for the users after installation.

It is also not possible for us to research and patch every package with a newer release as we have seen clearly that many projects get out of hands from the users while maintainers think to add more and more unneeded options or connections elsewhere. If there is need for pekwm:

https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/~team/ … f1afce0e0f
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … e_creation

Hyperbola has not the goal to offer more and more packages. It is up to the community doing that. There are also enough window-managers (https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … ow_manager) and with lumina also a working desktop-environment. We have clear communicated when and why we remove packages: https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic … 8138#p8138

We have also given clear points of Hyperbola as project:

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … philosophy
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … y_software
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … rktogether

pekwm fails to finalize the concrete mission-statement as it rely on github-hosted index, which is a problem. At one point we would need to upgrade pekwm for sure and we are not willing to handover uers towards Github or more towards Github as needed to download stable tarballs as the bare maximum to accept. Hyperbola has its strict ruleset for exactly this reasoning: When packages are finalized they are also available with full source-code to rebuild at any given time being part of our repository: https://repo.hyperbola.info:50011/gnu-p … hyperbola/

Hyperbola is NOT meant as just a "right to use" but a "right to use, modify, share and - yes - also OWN the software". Not just the right to "buy" some software with the right to "rent" it as long as someone is granting the "right to rent" (or not even that any longer). Yes, you download the software. But it is possible to create an own mirror at any given time, to rebuild all packages and all the software from sources provided, to modify and share those modifications. With additional "download" needs from packages we break through this concept and make the users adapting an enforced connection in combination with usage of local software. That is a clear violation of Hyperbola's stance and therefore pekwm (or comparable packages) have no place here, not now and not in the future.

As far explained: Thread closed.