Georg Grabler wrote: > Heya. > > Beryl - merged with compiz > whole games section - might should be moved to a games repo, maintained by TUs > gtk-gnutella - i don't see the point using a specific gnutella client > if a lot of other programs handle multiple protocols fine. > KOffice - rarely used compared to OpenOffice > Minimize kernel patchsets supported by [extra] > Networkmanager - too unstable anyway > Openbox or fluxbox - the difference is minimal anyway > Perl modules which are not base of some program / script > tkcvs - anyone still using this tool? > xmms + addins - should not be that heavily used anymore
I still "heavily" use XMMS: it's still the best music player around. The new GTK2 players have these annoying quirks which the original XMMS doesn't have. > remove web-based tools (as phpbb). I think they can also be downloaded > / unzipped by every guy himself. > Remove gaim (pigdin is already in) > bittornado (in favor of deluge, ktorrent) > > 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. The point why there are so many torrent clients to choose from is so that you would have the choice! Bad idea imho. > > On 5/9/07, Douglas Soares de Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aaron Griffin escreveu: >>> Ok all, I'm going to compile a list of packages that we're going to >>> try to get rid of. The reason being that our man power for >>> maintaining all these packages is pretty low. >>> >>> So, what I'd like to do to start this off is the following. From you >>> guys, the end users, can you let me know what packages in extra you >>> think don't really belong there? >>> >>> What I mean is this: often times, there are packages that come along >>> which are so much better than something else, a vast majority of users >>> jump ship for the new app. Take, for instance, openbox/fluxbox. >>> >>> To you devs, please let me know if you feel any of your packages don't >>> belong either - you probably know these packages better than other >>> people. This will speed up my job in compiling this list (I already >>> have a few of my own packages listed). >>> >>> By this Friday, I'd like to have a list complete so we can begin >>> moving some things to community / unsupported as we see fit. This >>> will require some TU input as well - if you guys see a package you'd >>> want to maintain, we can move it to community actually easier than >>> moving it to the AUR. >> >> Hi Aaron, >> >> If it is not a problem i would like to maintain the set of pyqt, sip and >> qscintilla packages and some python others if needed. >> >> I can also help with maintaining gnome, if needed. >> >> As i use this tools a lot. >> >>> So anyway, expect some packages to be moving out of extra this weekend. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Aaron >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> arch mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
