[Slackbuilds-users] Introducing the SlackBuild Boneyard

[David Chmelik]

On 15/07/2026 01:13, B. Watson wrote:
>
> I think this is ready for public consumption now...
>
> I've created an archive of all the SlackBuilds that have been removed
> from SBo since the start of Slackware 15.0:
>
> https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/boneyard/
>
> The files there are regular SlackBuild tarballs, like the ones on the
> SBo website. Anything that got deleted will end up there, so it won't
> be buried in the git log where it's hard to find out it ever existed.
>
> It will be updated weekly, probably on Saturdays (after the regular
> weekly SBo update). Anything that was deleted from the repo but got
> reinstated (as a new submission) will disappear from the boneyard.
>
> If you find something there that you think really shouldn't have been
> deleted, feel free to submit it as your own new build (giving credit
> to the original author).
>
> The text of the page already says this, but I'll repeat it here:
>
>   Note that this is purely a personal project of B. Watson
>   <urchlay at slackware.uk>. It is NOT part of the SlackBuilds.org project
>   or website.
>
> That doesn't mean you can't talk about it at all on this mailing
> list, but it does mean longer conversations belong in private emails,
> not the list. Anyway, there's not that much to say about it.
That's good, and might be interesting someday to see the archive slowly 
go back to the beginning.  Many were removed I wanted to see if they 
might still work--especially games--and I still use stuff from Slackware 
14.n-stable extra/ on 15+current.  Some of the interesting games maybe 
just went defunct and with a fork becoming more popular (even 10 or 20 
years ago, sometimes several times over years) but I don't know.  I have 
a fair number of packages I'm still interested in from old versions.  
Some the utilities, etc., broke but never really were replaced with 
something as good or better, though often not as necessary anymore.  I'd 
guess it might be too big a project, but maybe something to consider, 
especially if there might be a way to automate it?
         I guess you've also heard of alienBOB's git-like/-based site.  
I never really got into git, but he has a good idea, and I wonder if it 
makes sense to put an old archive there to be useable with that, though 
I guess often they will need modification.  I'm confused why he left 
SlackBuilds.org and then made this separate project.  I guess he has his 
own way of doing SlackBuilds that doesn't always fit SBo specifications.
         To Urchlay: still waiting to hear from you on other topics, but 
sounds like you've been busy, so that's fine/good.