[arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM, 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.

This looks nice. If you need a hand with anything, don't hesitate to
ask. Thanks for all the hard work, Allan.