Hi, Here is the second 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 or discussion topics so it would be nice to get some feedback on them. As said before, some of these packages can be depends of community packages. Please just dicuss them for now. I would prefer to do the actual removal myself. I will do so when the discussions will be over. ======================================================================================= Package Reason to remove it or Reason to keep it. Any comments, concerns, etc. ======================================================================================= akode will be dependency of kde4, right? (dp) apmd replaced by acpi (incorrect. needed for older machines) aria Superceded by aria2? aumix what console audio mixers do we provide? bidwatcher broken: bidding in bidwatcher is indefinitely broken because eBay has forced all bidding to occur only through signed-in clients bind DNS server. Should stay in repo. blam yet another RSS reader cccp dead project, could (maybe?) be replaced by dctc cdw project (ncurse cd-writer) has been revived, is there another console cd-writer in repo? chgres old, low usage? cplay yet another curses audio player cvsfs Discontinued. Developement has stopped in favor of cvsfs-fuse. dcd yet another command-line CD player divx4linux unused lib/codec dump tapedrive utility. it it worthy to keep? edb enlightenment db, unused efax utilities to send and receive faxes, I guess we should keep it unless another package provides fax support epic4 yet another console irc client exim what mta will we keep? font-bh-ttf should we keep it? font-bitstream-speedo who uses speedo fonts? font-misc-ethiopic i18n support, should be kept font-misc-meltho i18n support, should be kept freetype1 unused lib galeon yet another web browser gentoo yet another file manager gimp-perl low usage: perl plugin and modules for gimp gnet1 unused lib gnome-audio audio files for gnome. Are they still useful? gpgme03 obsoleted by gpgme??? gprolog Can be removed, I guess. There is another prolog compiler (swi-prolog) in repo. gpsdrive new dependencies in community, should be in community or unsupported ==> to be moved to community for Damir grcm dead project. no release since 2003 gstreamer0.10-alsaspdif gstreamer0.10-cdaudio gstreamer0.10-jack should not be removed (drastic loss of function for any gstreamer using app) - if nobody takes the gstreamer pkgs, i will (damir) gstreamer0.10-mpeg2enc gstreamer0.10-musicbrainz gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-sndfile gstreamer0.10-wavpack gstreamer0.10-x264 ircii-pana yet another console irc client irda-utils Utilities for infrared communication between devices: should be kept isapnptools ISA Plug-And-Play devices support: shopuld be kept lam MPI programming environment: low usage lib3ds free alternative to Autodesk's 3DS File Toolkit for handling 3DS files: low usage libast unused lib libflashsupport (in unstable) unused lib libgnomesu gksu and kdesu provide same functionality libping Anyone use ding in their scripts? Otherwise, unused lib/package libtrash unused lib lineak_defaultplugin The lineak packages could be substituted by my (Eric) keytouch pkg in community. It has more dependencies (gtk2) but has much or more functionality. lineak_xosdplugin same comment as above lprng we have cups standard now madplay yet another curses audio player mail-notification mail notification icon for gnome: low usage masqmail home page disappeared, another MTA mod_python used on Archlinux.org for django? nautilus-sendto nautilus extension, can be removed from extra netdude with libnetdude & libpcapnav used to inspect/manipulate tcpdump trace files. Should we keep it? netgo a tool for changing network settings quickly and easily: Is it still useful/usable with the latest network scripts? netkit-ntalk Isn't talk obsoleted by Instant Messaging and IRC? oidentd ident server like pidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? openchrome graphics drivers, should be kept unless it can be replaced by xf86-video-unichrome pdns Do we keep it? pdns-ldap unused lib, might be included in pdns (currently orphaned) pdns-mysql unused lib, might be included in pdns (currently orphaned) pdns-pgsql unused lib, might be included in pdns (currently orphaned) perl-email-date unused perl module. To Jan: You added it to the repo 2 months ago with several other perl packages. Did you forgot to adopt them or are they future dependencies? pidentd ident server like oidentd (orphaned). Which one should we keep or should we remove both? powernowd Do we need it? We already have cpudyn and cpufreq. prozilla multi-threaded download accelerator: low usage/usefulness ptabtools low usage: utilities to read files created by PowerTab Guitar Tablature editor (a Windows app) pure-ftpd yet another ftp server quick-lounge-applet gnome applet: low usage/usefulness samplicator home page has disappeared, looks like dead project service-discovery-applet gnome applet: low usage/usefulness setserial support for serial device, should be kept unless it's no longer needed speedtouch modem drivers, should be kept splitvt splitvt takes any VT100 terminal window and splits it vertically into two shell windows: screen does that ssmtp what mta will we keep? tiacx (in unstable) wireless drivers, should be kept tiacx-mm (in unstable) wireless drivers, should be kept tpop3d yet another pop3 server xf86-video-unichrome graphics drivers, should be kept, somebody with that hardware or the Xorg maintainer should take it xforms old, low usage xpdf-arabic i18n support, should be kept xpdf-chinese-simplified i18n support, should be kept xpdf-chinese-traditional i18n support, should be kept xpdf-cyrillic i18n support, should be kept xpdf-greek i18n support, should be kept xpdf-hebrew i18n support, should be kept xpdf-japanese i18n support, should be kept xpdf-korean i18n support, should be kept xpdf-latin2 i18n support, should be kept xpdf-thai i18n support, should be kept xpdf-turkish i18n support, should be kept zsh very popular. iphitus will adopt if nobody else will ======================================================================================= -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.