On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Allan McRae <allan.mcrae@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I have created a table of candidates for removal from the extra repo based > on <1% usage in the pkgstats results. I have gone through and flagged for > keeping packages which are i18n, makedepends, or otherwise needed (in pacman > testsuite, using on gerolde). See the list here: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Extra_Repo_and_Pkgstats > > There is probably other categories of packages we should keep (e.g drivers) > and there are some fonts which might be considered i18n related so can you > all go through the list a cross out the ones to be kept and giving the > reason. > > In a couple of weeks time I will remove all the orphaned packages remaining > on that list and contact the maintainers of the rest so they can decide what > to do with their packages. > > Cheers, > Allan Hi Alan, Can i give some other extend to this? I can understand why you limit the list to only packages with 0.xy usage, but i think theres much more to cleanup than just those packages. Orphan or not.. Just by looking at the statistics, for which we owe a huge thanks to Pierre, its obvious that more than 50% of the packages in extra have 10% or less usage. Most of which are below 5%. While at the same time there are many packages in community with >10%. Those should definately go in extra. Most of the developers use em too. Also , many packages in extra, some of which are long unmaintained upstream, many multimedia & games packages come to mind but not limited to these. Those could go to community and even be left unmaintained with a small portion of good will. Anyway, all i am saying is dont focus only on packages having 0.xy usage. Greg
