Following my message about splitting the xorg-*-utils/apps packages in single packages for every app, I took a look at the official Xorg release set. With the release of Xorg 7.4 and 7.5, a lot of apps and drivers were removed. Some of these apps are still required but are no longer required, so I'll have a look at what's really deprecated and what is just removed without reason (xinit is one of them, I can't tell all our users to use a display manager instead of startx). Besides the applications, some changes have been made to the driver sets. The difflist between xorg and our repositories are as follows: -elographics -fpit -hyperpen -mutouch -penmount (-wacom) +ast +newport (-nouveau) -radeonhd +tga (-unichrome) +wsfb +xgi +xgixp I would suggest to remove the drivers with minus signs. They're no longer maintained and we already applied patches to make them build with current xorg-server. Upstream git contains patches that tell you to not use the driver anymore and abort compilation, so if anything breaks, we're on our own. The modules with a + should be added when they are valid for i686 or x86_64. This means that ast, xgi and xgixp get added to the repository. The modules with () are unofficial modules. All of those have active development, so I suggest keeping them. They are not allowed in the xorg or xorg-{input,video}-drivers groups however.