Over the years, BLFS has grown a lot. There are over 1000 individual
tarballs listed in the book. This creates a large maintenance burden.
It is a rare week when we have less than 30 new packages that need to be
updated.
The most time intensive process is preparing for our semi-annual
release. This is a two week process that provides quality control to
ensure all packages build with current libraries and support programs.
If packages are not kept up to date at other times, the time for the
release process will grow significantly. In addition, during the time
of release processing, new packages continue to be released.
To try to alleviate this problem, I am proposing that we remove some
packages from LFS. The list below is my initial proposal of packages
that are less frequently needed by users and are not worth maintaining
by BLFS. These packages are user level programs and do not include
libraries. Removal of libraries that are only used by these packages
will follow.
If I do not hear of any objections, I intend to start removing these
packages around October 1st.
I'm also open to nominations for removal of other packages.
-- Bruce
btrfs-progs-4.17.1
jfsutils-1.1.15
ntfs-3g-2017.3.23
reiserfsprogs-3.6.27
xfsprogs-4.18.0
JOE-4.6
Kate-18.08.0
Mousepad-0.4.1
zsh-5.6
Compface-1.5.2
MC-4.8.21
Sysstat-11.6.5
GCC-Ada-8.2.0
Guile-2.2.4
Apache-Maven-3.5.4
NcFTP-3.2.6
Lynx-2.8.9rel.1 or W3m-0.5.3
Alpine-2.21
ProFTPD-1.3.6
sendmail-8.15.2
OpenLDAP-2.4.46
IceWM-1.4.2
AbiWord-3.0.2
Gnumeric-1.12.43
Balsa-2.5.6
feh-2.27.1
FontForge-20170731
Pidgin-2.13.0
Transmission-2.94
xarchiver-0.5.4
Transcode-1.1.7
Audacious-3.10
Enscript-1.6.6
MuPDF-1.13.0
paps-0.6.8
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