As the lead for the treecleaner project (team, whatever you want to call it wolf ;) ), I've been trying to fix old broken packages, many have been slated for removal, some have had minor fixes, and others are still setting waiting for me to get some free time.
Another class of packages I wish to discuss (not remove quite yet, just talking ;) ) are older packages with stable markings. By Stable I mean debian stable, IE we stabled it in 2004 and no one has touched it since. Do these packages still work with a current system (linux 2.4/2.6, glibc-2.3/2.4, >=gcc-3.4, etc... So partially this is a question for gcc porting, how many *known broken* apps don't get fixed when we upgrade and stable a gcc version. Do these stay in the tree, and do they have deps on older versions of gcc (effectively masking them, since old versions of gcc generally get masked by profile eventually). How many apps are just sitting in the tree and no one knows if they compile at all with a recent system? Solar already has some decent tinderboxing scripts, it would be interesting to me to have a system to keep track of the known state of certain categories of packages that are...less used ;) I think also that genone's Gentoo-Stats project would be a great information aggregator as we could identify packages that no one uses anymore. Anyway, these were just some thoughts I had about trimming the tree a bit; feel free to rip em apart as always :0 -Antarus -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
