On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 17:17 +0200, Georg Grabler wrote:
> Heya.
> 
> Beryl - merged with compiz
Didn't beryl fork from compiz and change lots of things? or are both
actually the same nowadays?

> whole games section - might should be moved to a games repo, maintained by TUs
Keep gnome-games, gnome isn't complete without glchess ;)

> gtk-gnutella - i don't see the point using a specific gnutella client
> if a lot of other programs handle multiple protocols fine.
One simple (multi-protocol) P2P client would be enough I think
> KOffice - rarely used compared to OpenOffice
Don't know, don't use it. If some dev uses it and wants to maintain it,
keep it, otherwise, drop it. Same for abiword/gnumeric (I don't use
either of them)

> Minimize kernel patchsets supported by [extra]
Having 4 kernels is shitty, especially when they're combined with many
binary modules for every kernel. IMHO only kernel26 should stay.

> Networkmanager - too unstable anyway
Works fine here, I use it on my laptop without problems and wouldn't
like to do without it.

> Openbox or fluxbox - the difference is minimal anyway
Agree

> Perl modules which are not base of some program / script
Agree

> tkcvs - anyone still using this tool?
What is it? :D

> xmms + addins - should not be that heavily used anymore
Agree, xmms is no longer developed. It's also one of the few packages
that keeps gtk1 in the repo

> remove web-based tools (as phpbb). I think they can also be downloaded
> / unzipped by every guy himself.
Agree, if we were debian that configures everything as
ready-after-install/upgrade stuff, it would be useful. At this moment,
web packages are not useful at all.
 
> Remove gaim (pigdin is already in)
Wasn't it dead? pacman -Ss gaim shows just pidgin

> bittornado (in favor of deluge, ktorrent)
Just like the gtk-gnutella thingy...

> Hmh, that's what i've found. A bit less as it seems. Generally,
> software like bittorrent clients and so on can be moved down to
> [community] in my eyes.

There's also legacy libraries. We have 3 versions of gtkmm: one for gtk
1.x, one for gtk2<=2.2 and one for the correct gtk2. These had its
reasons for getting imported, but as we're cleaning up anyways...

Another one: sodipodi. This is no longer developed and got forked some
years ago as inkscape. Inkscape has regular releases and gets better on
every new release, where sodipodi stays as it is.


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