On 5/17/07, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

Looking at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7180 : We imported these packages (gtkmm1, gtkmm2.2) because we had apps that required it (I remember packaging gtkmm2.2 for passepartout which never made it to our repositories). I already cleaned gtkmm2.2 and libsigc++2, the one left here is gtkmm1 and its dependency libsigc++:

[jan@laptop pacman]$ grep gtkmm1 */*/depends extra/ickle-0.3.2-1/depends:gtkmm1

[jan@laptop pacman]$ grep libsigc++ */*/depends | grep -v sigc++2 extra/gtkmm1-1.2.10-2/depends:libsigc++ extra/libicq2000-0.3.2-3/depends:libsigc++ extra/libuta-0.4.4-1/depends:libsigc++

[jan@laptop pacman]$ grep libicq2000 */*/depends extra/ickle-0.3.2-1/depends:libicq2000>=0.3.2

[jan@laptop pacman]$ grep libuta */*/depends [jan@laptop pacman]$

[jan@laptop pacman]$ pacman -Ss ickle extra/ickle 0.3.2-1 ickle - a icq2000 client

First, we have ickle, which requires gtkmm1 and libsigc++. Then we have libuta, which is a library used by nothing. Given the fact that gtk1 and especially gtkmm1 is very old and unmaintained, I would like to remove them from the repositories or move them to unsupported. According to archstats, there's 2 users having ickle installed, where we have lots of users who have a different ICQ client installed (gaim/pidgin, kopete and possibly others).

What's our opinion on this? Purge or move all these packages?

I say dump them, at best move them to unsupported. -Dan