I said it and now I'm doing it.
I have started making a once over of the packages looking for dead/obsolete/unecessary core packages in core-testing. I have gone through .src.rpm's a*-e* and I have a breakdown of packages. These packages appear to be things that can either move to extras or be dropped.
I am willing to pledge support for some of these packages if there is a call for their continued existance in extras, but not all. I have a feeling that some will drop completly out from lack of support.
Lines with a '+' mean that they are a dependancy that is a logical remove as well. I have a small reason for each removal from core listed next to each. 'D:0' = nothing depends on these packages.
Highly likley candidates
ElectricFence - Development only ( many similar ) D:0 SDL* - kdeaddons is the only thing that depends on this + kdeaddons - small add on packages for stock kde apps *VFlib2 - only if we can break the ghostscript requireedby + MagicPoint - Duplicated functionality already in other packages Xaw3d - required by emacs + emacs ( pick emacs or xemacs and move the other to extras ) a2ps - used by Xfprint ( XFce - already moved to extras ) awesfx - OLD Soundblaster awe 32 util ( 2000 ) D:0 bogl* - kernel 2.2 fb graphics lib D:0 cdecl - C/C++ to English conversion D:0 dasher - obscure alternate input method D:0 ! 10MB dovecot - IMAP server ( duplication of effort ) epic - duplicate effort lynx - duplicate effort ( elinks )
Possible candidates
Canna - Superceeded by IIMF - nothing depends ! 10MB Guppi apel - extras for emacs + ddskk - extra input methods for emacs + film - message encoding emacs + wl - imap/pop/nntp reader for emacs arptables_jf - specialized filtering of arp D:0 ccs - cluster config? cdlabelgen - does anyone use? D:0 cscope - c code browser - duplicate effort D:0 doxygen - Sorce code documentation generator D:0 autorun - functionality in most desktops already d:0
Cheers, Eric
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Eric Warnke Computer Programmer / Systems Analyst eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx 518-727-1523 GPG Fingerprint: E7C5 615B 2115 C9D9 7E75 5088 930B 91E5 218B 6259
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