[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats and repo cleanup

[Allan McRae]

Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:16 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Allan
>>     
>
> Hi Alan,
> Can i give some other extend to this?
> I can understand why you limit the list to only packages with 0.xy
> usage, but i think
> theres much more to cleanup than just those packages. Orphan or not..
> Just by looking at the statistics, for which we owe a huge thanks to
> Pierre, its obvious
> that more than 50% of the packages in extra have 10% or less usage.
> Most of which
> are below 5%.
> While at the same time there are many packages in community with >10%. Those
> should definately go in extra. Most of the developers use em too.
> Also , many packages in extra, some of which are long unmaintained
> upstream, many
> multimedia & games packages come to mind but not limited to these.
> Those could go to community and even be left unmaintained with a small
> portion of
> good will.
> Anyway, all i am saying is dont focus only on packages having 0.xy usage.
>
> Greg
>
>   

Sure there is more to be done.  I'm just starting at the extremes for 
the time being.

Allan