On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Eric Warnke wrote: > ElectricFence - Development only nothing depends on it - 1 objection, > but I still say it's usage does not justify it remaining in core - there > is at least one competing package ( dmalloc, valgrind ) valgrind is i386 only (therefore not a replacement for efence) and dmalloc is far worse then efence. If anything needs to be dumped to Extras, then it is dmalloc, not ElectricFence. > lynx/elinks - 1 objection about scripts using lynx... ether those > scripts are not part of core or they are not marked correctly. If you > can surf the web with either, you can download them from extras. If > either has a dependancy in core the .src.rpm needs to be corrected. If you install a server, you often don't run X at all and ability to browse web is very useful. Plus it is definitely something e.g. blind people can't miss in the distro. Therefore I strongly object to dropping at least elinks. elinks is really small package btw. > doxygen - Sorce code documentation generator D:0 - 1 objecton - I don't > think we necessarly need to keep every build dependancy in core. Core must be self-hosting. Jakub
