[arch-general] Please move evieext and printproto from [extra] to [null]

[Daniel Martin]

Hi folks,

In [extra] we've printproto, evieext and their libraries (libxp and
libxevie), which are of no use. Because, both extensions have been
droped from xorg-server 5 years ago:
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=f4036f6
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1c8bd31

The first version of xorg-server without those extensions was 1.6.0,
which was added in March 2009:
    https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/xorg-server&id=593f6e7

Removing evieext and libxevie should be straight forward, as they aren't
required by anything else.

For libxp it looks a bit different:
    https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxp/
I hope that all required-by's have a switch to disable the dependency to
libxp. I've checked at least openmotif: its configure knows a
--disable-printing option. (While looking at openmotif [community], I've
noticed that it isn't required by anyone. Isn't that a candidate to be
moved to AUR?)

Then we've libxcb, here xevie and xprint have to be disabled explicitly
as they're enabled by default.


It's not a bug to keep the packages and they don't eat much space on the
harddisk. So, I don't have any better argument then saying: they don't
serve any purpose. But, for quite some time I wanted to point at them.

So, is it in your interest to get rid of them? Would you like to do it?


Thanks for your patience and thanks for Arch,
    Daniel Martin