[arch-dev-public] Third list of removal candidates

[Eric Belanger]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

> 2007/11/27, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is the third sublist. It contains the packages from the second list
>> that for which no decision has been made plus the remaining orphans in the
>> wiki list. There might be a fourth sublist if there are still some stray
>> orphans remaining.
>>
>> If you think a package should be kept or disagree about the comments, say
>> it so. If you think all these packages can be removed, also say it so. If
>> you want to adopt one of these packages, please adopt it through the
>> dashboard and let me know.
>>
>> ======================================

>> libidl  unused lib
>> libsvg  unused lib
> Aren't they just non-specified depends? Names sound like they are/was
> important somewhere.

libidl seems to be a legacy lib which is no longer needed. Packages in the 
repo now uses libidl2.

libsvg is old. It's a devel snapshot dating from 2005.

About non-specified depends: I won't go through the thousands of packages 
in the repo to see if their depends are correct. ;) If a package has one 
of these libs as a non-specified depends, a user will eventually get an error 
and will file a bug report.  The dev with the brocken package will need to 
readd the missing depends in the repo.


>> powernowd       Do we need it? We already have cpudyn and cpufreq. As a decision been made?
> Not needed. We have all needed modules in kernel and cpufrequtils to
> make them usable.
> (see comments in previous thread)

OK, just wanted to  be sure.

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