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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> 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.
>   
Don't liblbxutil and xorg-xsm become orphans when the user upgrades to 
that particular X version? I noticed I don't have these packages and I 
don't even know why (I did clean up my orphans recently, like every good 
user should)
I do have csup explicitly installed , because it used to be in the 
base-devel group.  I guess that's where 
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8242 - "Keep track of groups and allow 
upgrading them with pacman -Syu" - comes in.
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