[arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

Daniel Isenmann daniel.isenmann at gmx.de
Sat Nov 29 06:43:22 EST 2008


On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:16:40 +1000
Allan McRae <allan.mcrae at qimr.edu.au> wrote:

> 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
> 

There are three of my packages on that list, which should be together
with the other mono packages. I have add a comment to those packages,
that they should be in extra.

Daniel



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