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

[Kaiting Chen]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:40:25PM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:01:03AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> > > Am 24.02.2012 17:06, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
>> > > > Apart from that, +1 to this idea. I already checked the list of
>> unneeded
>> > > > orphans and there's >20 packages I'd like to maintain if they aren't
>> > > > picked up in [extra]...
>> > >
>> > > Send me a list of these packages. But ensure they are still orphan and
>> > > are not a dep or makedep of any package in core/extra.
>> >
>> > Well, there's only a few packages left (others have already been moved
>> > or are required by another [core]/[extra] package):
>> >
>> > * bluez-firmware
>> > * cmus
>> > * evilwm
>> > * fortune-mod
>> > * id3v2
>> > * jhead
>> > * libofx
>> > * libofx-doc
>> > * lirc
>> > * lzo
>> > * msmtp
>> > * ncftp
>> > * pdksh
>> > * perl-timedate
>> > * pidgin-encryption
>>
>> Status? Only bluez-firmware has been adopted yet.
>>
>> >
>> > Note that fortune-mod is an optdep of xfce4-session and id3v2 is an
>> > optdep of gtkpod (I can also maintain gtkpod if no one else wants to but
>> > I don't use it, so this might not be in the sense of this cleanup).
>> >
>> > 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).
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Greetigns,
>> > >
>> > > Pierre
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com
>>
>
> Ooh I'll take vsftpd if that's available. I use it all the time. --Kaiting.
>
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> Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
>

Oh never mind that's taken, I could take bzr, proftpd, openbabel, and vim.
Out of these avogadro which is in [extra] depends on openbabel.
Surprisingly the only non-vim package that depends on vim is archboot and
that is in [extra]. Which means that the entirety of the vim ecosystem in
Arch could potentially be moved to [community] (except for archboot).
--Kaiting.

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