I agree that those packages can be removed, but isn't HAL a requirement for KDE3, though? (I would argue to remove the whole KDE3 section. Are people still using it?)
In addition, clucene is no longer used by the semantic desktop in KDE4 (being replaced by virtuoso). Any reason to keep it in the book? -Ragnar- ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 23:08:02 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [blfs-dev] Packages which could be removed. > > I have been looking at the book. Also as Ken mentioned, there are too > many packages in the book which makes it hard to maintain. Anyways, here > is my oppinion on which and why some of the packages could be possibly > removed from the book. > > Heimdal-1.4 or MIT Kerberos V5-1.6 - I don't know about you guys, but > having 2 packages for Kerberos5 implementation is unnecesary in BLFS. I > always use MIT Kerberos because I mostly link against it's libraries and > such. Never used Heimdal, but it claims to do the same. > > PolicyKit-0.9 - Unmaintained, replaced by polkit-0.102 > > ScrollKeeper-0.3.14 - We've been on this once. Unmaintained, Rarian > provides it's functionality now. > > HAL-0.5.14 - Discussed earlier. It's unmaintained and obsoleted by > udisks/upower/gvfs/whatever. > > packagekit-0.7.1 - Absolutely not necesary - neither lfs nor blfs use > any package management. Also, all applications can be made not to even > require it's libraries. > > Inetutils-1.9.1 - Clients are installed during LFS build and whois is > provided by other packages. Telling that, only servers remain which are > insecure by nature - you stated it in the book, I think. Anyways, xinetd > has been recently removed which managed those servers. > > gnome-packagekit-3.2.1 - Same reason as for packagekit-0.7.1 > > Cdrtools-2.01 - It's functionality is mostly used with dvd+rw-tools-7.1. > Debian has a patch that implicitly adds cdrkit code into genisoimage - > If anyone is interested to look at it, find it on > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/dvd+rw-tools/7.1-10 > > LPRng-3.8.B - This may be necesary, but CUPS-1.5.0 provides all binaries > it does. > > FOP-1.0 - Requires Java XML Graphics stuff which isn't in the book. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
