On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:24:18 -0500, Eric Warnke <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > usermode/utempter - overlaps with sudo usermode is acutually used by every system-config tool utempter is needed by libgnome and xorg-x11 packages nothing uses sudo... though i imagine many users do. > tix - Tcl/Tk extansion required by tkinter.. as soon as tkinter is dropped this will go. without complaint i would imagine > nut - nice package, but is it really core materal? as much a piece of core as any server oriented package. Get apache booted out first and I'll agree. > nss_db - partly broken. Most usefulness gone now that nscd is standard ( > dosfttools - looks like mtools superceeds this package. needed by mkbootdisk mtools needed by syslinux get the syslinux and the mkbootdisk maintainers to agree on one or the other if possible before talking about removing one of them. Though honestly i don't see how the binaries in mtools superceed the binaries in dosfstools. /sbin/fsck.vfat seems rather important at first glance. > lftp - useful ftp client ( ftp, ncftp ) D:0 if yer gonna drop one drop ftp or ncftp instead.. lftp handles ftp and http, > MAKEDEV - Superceeded by udev ? required by udev > a2ps - text to postscript tool required by xfprint xfprint is no longer in the development tree.. > freeradius - complex package d:0 I objected.. i continue to object. This is a poor argument. Either point to a package this duplicates or make an argument that this functionality shouldnt be in core. No matter how complex the service is.. it provides functionality for server configurations. > mc - Is this really a core util? would it be better served in extras? there are many console oriented applications in Core... is there a reason why there should text console filemanager as well? We have console text editors and web browsers... why not a filemanager as well? -jef
