[arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

[Allan McRae]

Firmicus wrote:
> Allan McRae a écrit :
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo 
>> based on <1% usage in the pkgstats results.  I have gone through and 
>> flagged for keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or 
>> otherwise needed (in pacman testsuite, using on gerolde).  See the 
>> list here: 
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats
>>
>> There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g 
>> drivers) and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n 
>> related so can you all go through the list a cross out the ones to be 
>> kept and giving the reason.
>>
>> In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages 
>> remaining on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so 
>> they can decide what to do with their packages.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Allan
>>
>>
>
> Good work Allan.
>
> The few packages I maintain in that list I will certainly move to 
> community.
>
> But don't forget that we also have those two wiki pages:
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Cleanup
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup
>
> I think it would be a good idea to merge the above two pages to the 
> third one. We should not have 3+ pages devoted to one identical task.
>
> F

I didn't know about those pages.  I will look into merging them at a 
later time.

Allan