[arch-dev-public] First list of removal candidates
Dan McGee
dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 11:41:15 EDT 2007
On 10/27/07, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As promised, here is a first list of removal candidates. Please go
> through it to make sure we don't remove a package that, for some reason,
> should remain in extra. Some of the reason are actually questions
> (cvsup, gnome-system-tools, ksymoops, makedev, nail, rxvt_ja, rxvt) so it
> would be nice if someone can answer them. As said before, some of these
> packages are depends of community packages. Please just dicuss them for
> now. I would prefer to do the actual removal myself. I will do so in a few
> days after the discussion.
>
> =====================================
> Package Reason to remove it.
> =====================================
> asteroids3d orphaned games
> atomix orphaned games
> cgoban2 orphaned games
> cl-ppcre unused lib
> cl-ppmx unused lib
> cl-sdraw unused lib
> connmon sources not found/dead project
> cvsup Can be replaced by csup which builds on both architecture.
> dmalloc orphaned/low usage
> easysock dead project (or merged with libggz)
> eterm only one that still depends on freetype1
> eventlog unused lib
> fnlib unused lib
> fortunelock orphaned games
> gdsl unused lib
> gimp-freetype old, gimp plugin
> gimp-panorama-tools can't be installed because one of its depends (panorama-tools) was removed as it was obsolete
> gkx86info depends on gkrellm which has been moved to community
> glchess orphaned games
> glitz unused lib
> gltron orphaned games
> gnome-system-tools (in unstable) replace with new package from AUR and move to Extra?
> gramofile dead project
> gtetrinet orphaned games
> gtk+extra unused lib
> gtk-thinice-theme theme for gtk, low usage, this type of pkg can be moved to AUR
> gtk2+extra unused lib
> gtodo AUR candidate, low usage
> hermes unused lib
> javax-usb orphaned/low usage
> ksymoops Does it still work? It's a 2 yrs old kernel util. From the version number, it seems that it was for kernel 2.4
> libdivxdecore orphaned/depreceated
> libesmtp unused lib
> libgdamm unused lib
> libggz unused lib
> libghttp unused lib
> libnss-mysql unused lib
> libpixman unused lib
> libproplist unused lib
> libsafe unused lib
> libsvg-cairo unused lib
> libunicode unused lib
> lighthouseblue-gtk1 theme for gtk, low usage, this type of pkg can be moved to AUR
> lopster No more development based on this release is planned.
> makedev Do we need this anymore? What do we gain over mknod?
> metakit unused lib
> mgm updated 2004, dead project
> mm unused lib
> mowitz unused lib
> mt-st low usage: it's for Linux SCSI tape driver
> mtx low usage: it's for tape drives
> nail has been integrated into the Heirloom project as mailx. We already have another mailx package so we might as well remove nail
> napshare last version dates from Jan. 2006, doesn't build
> neverball orphaned game
> nurbs++ unused lib
> pclock WM dockapp
> pdns-ldap unused lib
> pdns-mysql unused lib
> pdns-pgsql unused lib
> peacock orphaned/low usage
> phpmyadmin orphaned web package
> pwm low usage: lightweight window manager
> rcs obsoleted by more modern/popular SCM
> ringtonetools old, low usage
> rxtx orphaned/low usage
> rxvt_ja can be replaced by rxvt-unicode (I guess)
> rxvt can be replaced by rxvt-unicode (I guess)
> sdlmm orphaned/low usage
> shapelib unused lib
> skyutils unused lib
> spectemu orphaned/low usage
> trackballs orphaned game
> ucl unused lib
> vcr one of it's depends (avifile) has been moved to community
> wwl low usage: ham-radio
> x264-svn (in unstable) orphaned, stable version is in extra
> ========================================================
I don't have any problems with the above list. Great work Eric!
-Dan
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