Firmicus wrote:
Hi folks,
Sorry for the halloweenish subject heading ;)
I recently got this bug report:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16690
It turned out it was not a bug with the perl package at all, but a
problem which occurs when the presumably very old and no longer existing
package "termcap-compat" is installed on a system. It was originally
installed as a dependency for some other, unidentified package. And it
turned out to my surprise that even I still had that package installed!
That prompts me to ask the following:
Are there other such obsolete packages that typically should no longer
be installed on a "clean" Arch Linux system? I am not in favour of
automating their removal, of course, but it would be useful to collect a
list of such things that we could put in the wiki and/or our monthly
newsletter. Another example that comes to mind is the obsolete file
/etc/udev/udev.rules that I also still had until recently, and which I
have removed after Thomas' suggestion.
Please submit your suggestions for the forthcoming "Arch Ghostbusting
Day" (aka "The Great Halloween Cleanup")! :)
libdownload - replaced by libfetch as pacman download backend
csup - relaced by using rsync for abs
Although, all these should be detectable by "pacman -Qqtd" (maybe not
libdownload as it was part of base).
Allan
