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

Paul Mattal paul at mattal.com
Sun Oct 28 07:55:36 EDT 2007


Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:14 -0400, Eric Belanger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As promised, here is a first list of removal candidates.  Please go 
>> through it to make sure we don't remove a package that, for some reason, 
>> should remain in extra. Some of the reason are actually questions 
>> (cvsup, gnome-system-tools, ksymoops, makedev, nail, rxvt_ja, rxvt) so it 
>> would be nice if someone can answer them. As said before, some of these 
>> packages are depends of community packages. Please just dicuss them for 
>> now. I would prefer to do the actual removal myself. I will do so in a few 
>> days after the discussion.
>>
>> =====================================
>>   Package 	 Reason to remove it. 
>> =====================================
>> libggz	unused lib
> libggz will be a dependency for gnome-games 2.22
> 
>> mt-st	low usage: it's for Linux SCSI tape driver

Thanks for spotting this, Jan. I've stepped up to the plate on mt-st, so
we should not remove it.

- P




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