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

[Leonid Isaev]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:28:25 -0400
Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > 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.
> 

What about pmount? Since I use it, I can pick it up in AUR...

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