[Slackbuilds-users] New orphans

[Greg Tourte]

I'll take mpir, meshlab and cfengine

On Sat, 25 Jul 2026, 14:22 Ruben Schuller, <sb at rbn.im> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have locally updated the ejabberd SlackBuild a while back to see if
> the new version works. I don't really use jabber all that much right
> now, but it would be a shame if it goes away, IMHO.
>
> Pretty sure this requires an updated erlang-otp. I had a mail exchange
> with Ryan S. Northrup back then about this, but that has been a while
> ago.
>
> Cheers
> Ruben
>
> 2026-07-25 "B. Watson" <urchlay at slackware.uk>:
>
> > At this point, as of the update a few minutes ago, we have 10170
> > SlackBuilds in the repo. And 1665 of them are orphaned due to being
> > unmaintained. That's 16% (or 1/6th) of the repo...
> >
> > I encourage everyone to look through the list of orphaned builds and
> > see if there's anything there that looks interesting and/or useful.
> > Anything you find, you can take maintenance of without even asking or
> > telling anyone.
> >
> > The list:
> >
> > https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=maint&q=NOEMAIL
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