On 10/27/07, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
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.
===================================== Package Reason to remove it. ===================================== 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 ========================================================
I don't have any problems with the above list. Great work Eric! -Dan