[arch-dev-public] Other things gleaned from package list statistics

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 10:58:49 EST 2008


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a few packages people have installed that we have killed
> that show up really high on the list:
>
> liblbxutil-84.79 %
> csup    -44.39 %
> xorg-xsm-43.74 %
>
> It might be worth posting a news item saying these packages are
> worthless on a modern-day Arch system (as long as you have a newer X)?
> I know I had some of them installed.

Hmm, is there a more generic way to handle cases like this? -Qm can
help us in these cases, but considering how much people use the AUR,
we need to be careful.



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