[arch-general] defunct packages spooking around

[Allan McRae]

Firmicus wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry for the halloweenish subject heading ;)
>
> I recently got this bug report:
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16690
>
> It turned out it was not a bug with the perl package at all, but a
> problem which occurs when the presumably very old and no longer existing
> package "termcap-compat" is installed on a system. It was originally
> installed as a dependency for some other, unidentified package. And it
> turned out to my surprise that even I still had that package installed!
>
> That prompts me to ask the following:
>
> Are there other such obsolete packages that typically should no longer
> be installed on a "clean" Arch Linux system? I am not in favour of
> automating their removal, of course, but it would be useful to collect a
> list of such things that we could put in the wiki and/or our monthly
> newsletter. Another example that comes to mind is the obsolete file
> /etc/udev/udev.rules that I also still had until recently, and which I
> have removed after Thomas' suggestion.
>
> Please submit your suggestions for the forthcoming "Arch Ghostbusting
> Day" (aka "The Great Halloween Cleanup")! :)
>
>   

libdownload - replaced by libfetch as pacman download backend
csup - relaced by using rsync for abs

Although, all these should be detectable by "pacman -Qqtd" (maybe not 
libdownload as it was part of base).

Allan