On 27.12.2011 18:35, Edoardo Maria Elidoro wrote: > Hi, > I wrote to the ex-mainteiner of input-wacom ( > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45001) asking if it's safe to > remove this out-of-date and orphan package. > Here's his answer: > > For current 3.x kernel, it is useless, that's >> true - but I left it in case someone wants to port it into lts - >> because lts kernel lags behind and there input-wacom can still be >> useful (probably it requires very little change, but I don't have lts >> kernel on my machine to test). So primarily I left it for users of lts >> or other custom kernel to pick, but as no one was interested for all >> that time, I think it should be pretty safe to remove. After all it's >> not that hard to package this, so if someone needs it he can build it >> from scratch. >> > > So, shall we remove this package? >
I'm for keeping it until lts moves away from 2.x. Then we can remove it. > How should we deal with out-of-date packages that maybe someone still use? > (Question extended to kde3, xfce4.x - with x lesser then 8 and gnome2 > related packages) If people use it and it still builds/works I don't see a problem in keeping them. PKGBUILDs don't use much space and if you build it yourself you should know that it's old and probably buggy. -- Florian Pritz
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