[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date orphans in repo

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Eric Bélanger schrieb:
>>
>> lshwd:
>> Package in the repo is at the latest stable (few years old). There's a
>> newer rc release but : do we still need this?  It's still popular
>> (25.39 %) though  so I could always update it to the rc release.
>
> We should really drop this hwd stuff. Apparently some howtos still recommend
> using "hwd -xa" to generate xorg.conf, but this command will generate a
> bloated configuration file that is probably not even compatible to the
> latest xorg-server versions.
>
>

lshwd hasnt been used by hwd since version 5.0
ChangeLog says:
21-Nov-2007, version 5.0
- lshwd replaced with pciutils and usbutils
27-Nov-2007, version 5.1.2
- fixed mkxcfg, no lshwd dependency

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Greg