On 5/9/07, Georg Grabler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heya.

This is great, thanks a lot.  I just want to comment so I can get some
clarity here.

> Beryl - merged with compiz

> whole games section - might should be moved to a games repo, maintained by TUs

I think a handful of us agree that we should kill all the 'games'
current/extra.  Would anyone have a severe problem with these things
moving to the AUR/community?

> gtk-gnutella - i don't see the point using a specific gnutella client
> if a lot of other programs handle multiple protocols fine.
I actually used to use this before I found mutella, but that was years
ago before bittorrent became the new hotness.

> Minimize kernel patchsets supported by [extra]
Yeah, that's a big one too.  The -beyond patchset has died, so that's
one down.  We have ck, suspend2, and ummmm...

> Networkmanager - too unstable anyway
> Openbox or fluxbox - the difference is minimal anyway
These two seem iffy to me.

> Perl modules which are not base of some program / script
Yes, this is a big one.  I'm going to scan all packages for those that
are not required by anything else.

> tkcvs - anyone still using this tool?
Hah, that's probably a good candidate.

> xmms + addins - should not be that heavily used anymore
Isn't xmms dead anyway?

> remove web-based tools (as phpbb). I think they can also be downloaded
> / unzipped by every guy himself.
I think this one is very important, actually.  Web-based tools are
generally easy to install (unzip to docroot), and trying to do it
consistently with different docroots and configurations is probably a
poor idea.

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