[arch-dev-public] xmms in extra

[Eric Bélanger]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 2009/1/12 Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org>:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we have two options here:
>>>>> * We completely get rid of gtk and all packages which depend on it.
>>>>> * We allow xmms back into extra
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm fine with either one, but I do think it'd be silly not to move
>>>>> xmms to extra based on the usage stats
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm also fine either way, but remember, installed != used.  I have xmms
>>>> installed on both my workstations,
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ageed. I have xmms installed because its a dep for one of my quod
>>> libet plugins. I accidentally opened it the other day and was
>>> surprised to find it installed. ;-)
>>>
>>> Also: if xmms has a high enough usage to be in extra, I assume gtk's
>>> usage stats are even higher. So whatever arguments for
>>> keeping/discarding xmms based on statistics will also apply to gtk.
>>>
>>> Dusty
>>>
>>>
>>
>> gtk has a usage of 55.82 %.  If we remove gtk, we'll also need to
>> remove pacaackages such as imlib which is a depends for stuff like
>> fvwm and icewm. It makes more sense to keep gtk in extra and to move
>> xmms in extra.
>>
>> BTW, the new bluez package in testing depends on glib. So removing gtk
>> but keeping glib in extra doesn't make much sense either.
>>
>>
>
> I think that is a bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12723
>
>

FYI: I had to do a couple of fixes to xmms including a security patch
so I just pushed it to extra as everyone seemed to be neutral about
it.