[arch-general] Removing padevchooser and paman

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:39 -0500, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote:
> On 05/08/10 at 11:27am, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 20:54 -0500, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote:
> > > On 05/08/10 at 02:23am, Jan Steffens wrote:
> > > > I would like to remove these two packages from community and move them to
> > > > unsupported (AUR). Both are marked as obsolete by upstream[1] and weren't
> > > > updated since 2007.
> > > > 
> > > > padevchooser is a notification area app that allows choosing default sinks
> > > > and sources, as well as starting some other PulseAudio applications. It has
> > > > been obsoleted by pavucontrol, which also allows much finer control over
> > > > sink and source usage.
> > > > 
> > > > paman is a diagnostic tool that provides information similar to "pacmd
> > > > list", as well as allowing control of stream volumes (provided by
> > > > pavucontrol) and playing samples from the cache (pacmd play-sample).
> > > > 
> > > > Your thoughts?
> > > > 
> > > > 1: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
> > > They certainly look like candidates for removal. Good job jumping on the
> > > PA packages, I'm glad to be rid of them ;)
> > 
> > Ghost, you use PA?
> > 
> Nope, hence why i'm glad to get rid of them. I was maintaining them because
> i consider PA an important package that shouldn't be orphaned and no one
> else wanted the hassle of dealing with it.

Ah that explains it. I was under the impression PA was going to
(eventually) be JGC's, in line with all the other Gnome stuff.