I'm of the opinion that at least one well-maintained text editor should remain in core - my vote would be for nano, as vi has been outclassed by its clones and ed doesn't see much use nowadays. I have no personal issues with the other suggested cleanup items. Best, Campbell ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 at 6:05 AM, David Runge <dave@sleepmap.de> wrote:
Hi all,
we need to do a bit of [core] repository cleanup.
In this MD [1] (publicly visible readonly link [2]) we have a list of packages that should leave [core], some maybes that need discussion before moving them and some that should be moved to [core] from the other repositories.
If you have more packages, that should not be in [core] anymore or should be moved to it, please add them to the list(s).
The general rules for inclusion in [core] are, that we want to - preserve base-devel as a group there - preserve base as a meta-package there - preserve makedepends and depends of a [core] package there
The checkdepends and also optdepends of a package may reside in other repositories.
As we have a few removals of packages in the list that concern packages only in [core] for historical (or other) reasons, please keep the discussion about them focused on technical reasons as to why they should potentially remain there.
Additionally, we have a few orphan packages in [core] that need adoption. Please adopt packages (if you can)!
Best, David
[1] https://md.archlinux.org/nrXL0ay5Tp6wP-f5M7N8bA# [2] https://md.archlinux.org/s/MliseALTG#