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Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Does it have to be developed further? Neofetch looks like a finished product.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, it does its job for now. As for the security updates... Isn't neofetch just a little fancy tool to display data from your system that is already exposed to any process on your distribution? What attack surface does it introduce?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Going by the releases, it didn't need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed

Security wise, I think you're right

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

according to the Asahi guy, it doesn't work correctly for ARM: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111018734178152229

I am utterly oblivious to how neofetch works, but it does seem to need updates to support newer tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Works on mine

Édit: (10)... Ah, I see the point, indeed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

True for all programs

[–] Classy -1 points 3 months ago

Doesn't affect me since I'm on EndeavourOS and they discontinued ARM support anyway!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It still had issues like handling 8-bit colors in ascii art incorrectly last I checked a few years back, with that pr already being a few years old then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I wonder which of the many fetch tools support 24bit terminal colours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

On first sight yes, in reality: no.