On 5/2/08, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan@hotmail.com> wrote:
This situation is behind my reasoning to create a list of potential removals first. I think we need to be careful of removing too many packages, especially in our first cleanup attempt. Just the really unneeded ones as a first step. I had even considered that once the list was made, then I would archive all the relevant PKGBUILDs before deleting them. But it would be better to just not delete useful packages in the first place...
I second your proposition. In case we want to work on IRC for the CU day as proposed earlier (which I think is a good idea), I wrote a IRC bot. Just say ":d pkgname" (I use vim...) and it will download it for backup, then make a report. I'll make an archive of the result packages at the end. Running for now on #archlinux-cleanup@freenode, http://koon.fr/~gcarrier/cleanup/ -- Geoffroy Carrier