On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:34:00PM -0500, Eric Belanger wrote:
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 needed for older machines) aria Superceded by aria2?
Actually, aria and aria2 are totally different. I think the biggest difference is that aria is supported by FlashGot as a download manager but aria2 isn't (aria2 has a totally different focus than aria).
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
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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?
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't gerolde still use this right now? We use exim for work here, so I would probably be able to maintain it if need be.
font-bh-ttf should we keep it? font-bitstream-speedo who uses speedo fonts? font-misc-ethiopic i18n support, should be kept
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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?
I use ssmtp. I will maintain it. Jason