[arch-dev-public] Third list of removal candidates

[K. Piche]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:09 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2007/11/27, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> >

> [skipping gnome packages that Jan answered about]
> 
> > evms    Description: Enterprise Volume Management System
> I don't know who uses it but it's kinda important package.
> 
> > giftoxic        Description: A GTK frontend for the giFT daemon
> It's from 2003. giFT and OpenFT are from 2004 and 2005. Oldies... :-)


I won't cry if we drop the gift set of packages.  No updates in years.


> > gpart   Description: Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged
> Testdisk rules here, gpart is not needed.
> I've recovered >50 HDDs with Testdisk (DOS version, using since v4.1
> IIRC) and it only improves with each version.

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K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com>