On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Roman Kyrylych<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 04:35, Eric Bélanger<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there anyone interested in maintaining libtar? The man pages >> needs to be fixed, BTW. If not, I'll move it to unsupported as no >> packages in the repos use it. > > IMO if a library is not used by any package, > then it's not worth to keep it in a repo. > (I'm talking about any library here, not just libtar). > Well, maybe some libraries may be good for programmers, > but then if they are useful - there would be at least one > package that make use of them.
I mostly agree. libtar was in the repos for pacman pre-3.0 only, if I remember right
