Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2021, 14:26:32 EET schrieb Joonas Niilola:

> # Now my question is, does anyone find any of these packages useful?
> Should we go ahead and last-rite them, since it doesn't seem useful to
> carry these in Gentoo? The ones broken are heading towards last-riting
> nevertheless.

We have done such cleanups in the past. Libraries without consumers in the 
Gentoo tree make in general only limited sense.

That said, if they build and have an active maintainer, why not keep them for 
now.

This is more or less a cost/benefit question.

> 
> # So the final list of "useless" libs is:
> dev-libs/atcore
> dev-libs/bcm2835
> dev-libs/bitset
> dev-libs/boost-mpl-cartesian_product
> dev-libs/caliper
> dev-libs/clhpp
> dev-libs/distorm64
> dev-libs/editline
> dev-libs/faxpp
> dev-libs/go-usb
> dev-libs/gtx
> dev-libs/igraph
> dev-libs/ilbc-rfc3951
> dev-libs/injeqt
> dev-libs/jthread
> dev-libs/kqoauth
> dev-libs/libdivsufsort
> dev-libs/libdnsres
> dev-libs/libezV24
> dev-libs/libgcrypt-compat
> dev-libs/libpcre-debian
> dev-libs/libtomfloat
> dev-libs/libtompoly
> dev-libs/libtreadstone
> dev-libs/log4sh
> dev-libs/nss-pem
> dev-libs/OpenSRF
> dev-libs/pigpio
> dev-libs/processor-trace
> dev-libs/rapidxml
> dev-libs/redland-bindings
> dev-libs/rinutils
> dev-libs/rocm-hostcall
> dev-libs/smack
> dev-libs/squareball
> dev-libs/ustr
> dev-libs/vc-intrinsics
> dev-libs/xbyak
> dev-libs/zookeeper-c
> media-libs/cimg
> media-libs/elles_icc_profiles
> media-libs/esdl
> media-libs/fluidsynth-dssi
> media-libs/freeverb3
> media-libs/gmtk
> media-libs/gnonlin
> media-libs/guilib
> media-libs/intel-mediasdk
> media-libs/kodi-platform
> media-libs/libggigcp
> media-libs/libggimisc
> media-libs/libgroove
> media-libs/liblingoteach
> media-libs/libyami
> media-libs/memphis
> media-libs/noise-suppression-for-voice
> media-libs/raul
> media-libs/sdl-terminal
> media-libs/volpack
> 
> 
> -- juippis


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Andreas K. Hüttel
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Gentoo Linux developer 
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