Re: [arch-dev-public] Other things gleaned from package list statistics

[Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  

There are a few packages people have installed that we have killed
that show up really high on the list:

liblbxutil-84.79 %
csup    -44.39 %
xorg-xsm-43.74 %

It might be worth posting a news item saying these packages are
worthless on a modern-day Arch system (as long as you have a newer X)?
I know I had some of them installed.
    

Hmm, is there a more generic way to handle cases like this? -Qm can
help us in these cases, but considering how much people use the AUR,
we need to be careful.
  

Don't liblbxutil and xorg-xsm become orphans when the user upgrades to that particular X version? I noticed I don't have these packages and I don't even know why (I did clean up my orphans recently, like every good user should)
I do have csup explicitly installed , because it used to be in the base-devel group.  I guess that's where http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8242 - "Keep track of groups and allow upgrading them with pacman -Syu" - comes in.