16 Mar
2014
16 Mar
'14
10:47 p.m.
On 16/03/14 06:25 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote:
Hello,
I wonder whythe libwww packages still remain in [community].
1. It is a library, and 2. no other package depends on it. Even perl-libwww apparently does not.
Normally libraries are not maintained in a repo for their own sake, are they?
Best Regards
Stefan
It makes sense to package useful libraries, whether or not applications depend on them. However, I don't think anyone sane would use libwww in a new project. It's far outclassed by libcurl and other alternatives. Sergej has a *lot* of packages, and I'm sure you'll find many more seemingly useless ones like this. I don't really see a point in having stuff like GTK1 file managers in the repositories, but others may disagree :).