On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:39 -0500, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > On 05/08/10 at 11:27am, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 20:54 -0500, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote: > > > On 05/08/10 at 02:23am, Jan Steffens wrote: > > > > I would like to remove these two packages from community and move them to > > > > unsupported (AUR). Both are marked as obsolete by upstream[1] and weren't > > > > updated since 2007. > > > > > > > > padevchooser is a notification area app that allows choosing default sinks > > > > and sources, as well as starting some other PulseAudio applications. It has > > > > been obsoleted by pavucontrol, which also allows much finer control over > > > > sink and source usage. > > > > > > > > paman is a diagnostic tool that provides information similar to "pacmd > > > > list", as well as allowing control of stream volumes (provided by > > > > pavucontrol) and playing samples from the cache (pacmd play-sample). > > > > > > > > Your thoughts? > > > > > > > > 1: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup > > > They certainly look like candidates for removal. Good job jumping on the > > > PA packages, I'm glad to be rid of them ;) > > > > Ghost, you use PA? > > > Nope, hence why i'm glad to get rid of them. I was maintaining them because > i consider PA an important package that shouldn't be orphaned and no one > else wanted the hassle of dealing with it. Ah that explains it. I was under the impression PA was going to (eventually) be JGC's, in line with all the other Gnome stuff.
