On 19 July 2014 14:22, Daniel Martin <consume.noise@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
In [extra] we've printproto, evieext and their libraries (libxp and libxevie), which are of no use. Because, both extensions have been droped from xorg-server 5 years ago: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=f4036f6 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1c8bd31
The first version of xorg-server without those extensions was 1.6.0, which was added in March 2009: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/xorg-server&id=593f6e7
Removing evieext and libxevie should be straight forward, as they aren't required by anything else.
I don't remember seeing the use of X print API ever, so from my point of view it can be deleted. The decision whether they should be kept or not should remain on the maintainers. The packages themselves doesn't seem to be of much maintenance burden.
While looking at openmotif [community], I've noticed that it isn't required by anyone. Isn't that a candidate to be moved to AUR?)
In my opinion openmotif should stay, and in fact replace the lesstiff (which should be dropped then). After all, lesstiff is dead reimplementation of motif that exists only because motif wasn't free at the time. Lukas