[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages

[Guillaume Alaux]

On 5 March 2012 21:23, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Lukas Fleischer
> > <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> > > * bluez-firmware
> >
> > I take this one.
>
> Thanks!
>
> >
> > > * lzo
> >
> > If nothing is depending on this, it might simply mean that all users
> > have moved to lzo2 and that lzo can be dropped.
>
> partimage (which is in [community]) still depends on it. Not sure if it
> can be easily patched to use lzo2.
>
> >
> > > I'm not sure about lirc either, I'd prefer if someone could adopt both
> > > lirc and lirc-utils and maintain them in [extra] (lirc-utils is
> > > required
> > > by a bunch of [extra] packages).
> >
> > In particular:
> >
> > kradio
> > mplayer
> > mythtv
> > rhythmbox
> > rosegarden
> > xawtv
> > xine-ui
> >
> > Maybe worth investigating if it can be made an opt-depend, like it is
> > for some packages:
> >
> > pulseaudio (optional)
> > totem (optional)
> > vlc (optional)
>
> It's not that easy, I tested this before:
>
>    $ readelf -d $(which mplayer) | grep lirc
>     0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library:
> [liblirc_client.so.0]
>    $ pacman -Rdd --noconfirm lirc-utils >/dev/null
>    $ mplayer
>    mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: liblirc_client.so.0:
>    cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tom

Hi y'all,

Just for you to know, I adopted apache-ant which I use a lot mainly
for... Arch packaging :)

--
Guillaume