Hi,
As promised, here is a first list of removal candidates. Please go
through it to make sure we don't remove a package that, for some reason,
should remain in extra. Some of the reason are actually questions
(cvsup, gnome-system-tools, ksymoops, makedev, nail, rxvt_ja, rxvt) so it
would be nice if someone can answer them. As said before, some of these
packages are depends of community packages. Please just dicuss them for
now. I would prefer to do the actual removal myself. I will do so in a few
days after the discussion.
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Package Reason to remove it.
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asteroids3d orphaned games
atomix orphaned games
cgoban2 orphaned games
cl-ppcre unused lib
cl-ppmx unused lib
cl-sdraw unused lib
connmon sources not found/dead project
cvsup Can be replaced by csup which builds on both architecture.
dmalloc orphaned/low usage
easysock dead project (or merged with libggz)
eterm only one that still depends on freetype1
eventlog unused lib
fnlib unused lib
fortunelock orphaned games
gdsl unused lib
gimp-freetype old, gimp plugin
gimp-panorama-tools can't be installed because one of its depends (panorama-tools) was removed as it was obsolete
gkx86info depends on gkrellm which has been moved to community
glchess orphaned games
glitz unused lib
gltron orphaned games
gnome-system-tools (in unstable) replace with new package from AUR and move to Extra?
gramofile dead project
gtetrinet orphaned games
gtk+extra unused lib
gtk-thinice-theme theme for gtk, low usage, this type of pkg can be moved to AUR
gtk2+extra unused lib
gtodo AUR candidate, low usage
hermes unused lib
javax-usb orphaned/low usage
ksymoops Does it still work? It's a 2 yrs old kernel util. From the version number, it seems that it was for kernel 2.4
libdivxdecore orphaned/depreceated
libesmtp unused lib
libgdamm unused lib
libggz unused lib
libghttp unused lib
libnss-mysql unused lib
libpixman unused lib
libproplist unused lib
libsafe unused lib
libsvg-cairo unused lib
libunicode unused lib
lighthouseblue-gtk1 theme for gtk, low usage, this type of pkg can be moved to AUR
lopster No more development based on this release is planned.
makedev Do we need this anymore? What do we gain over mknod?
metakit unused lib
mgm updated 2004, dead project
mm unused lib
mowitz unused lib
mt-st low usage: it's for Linux SCSI tape driver
mtx low usage: it's for tape drives
nail has been integrated into the Heirloom project as mailx. We already have another mailx package so we might as well remove nail
napshare last version dates from Jan. 2006, doesn't build
neverball orphaned game
nurbs++ unused lib
pclock WM dockapp
pdns-ldap unused lib
pdns-mysql unused lib
pdns-pgsql unused lib
peacock orphaned/low usage
phpmyadmin orphaned web package
pwm low usage: lightweight window manager
rcs obsoleted by more modern/popular SCM
ringtonetools old, low usage
rxtx orphaned/low usage
rxvt_ja can be replaced by rxvt-unicode (I guess)
rxvt can be replaced by rxvt-unicode (I guess)
sdlmm orphaned/low usage
shapelib unused lib
skyutils unused lib
spectemu orphaned/low usage
trackballs orphaned game
ucl unused lib
vcr one of it's depends (avifile) has been moved to community
wwl low usage: ham-radio
x264-svn (in unstable) orphaned, stable version is in extra
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