Volunteers? was Re: further package removals/potential package removals
Elliot Lee
sopwith at redhat.com
Mon Jan 31 21:57:57 UTC 2005
Hey Jef, thanks for compiling this list!
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Bill Notting:
> xloadimage
> nedit
> jed
jed to extras once that process works, but probably needs to stick around
until then. The others look right.
> Peter Robinson:
> Can we also get rid / move to extras all the non
> GNOME 2 / GTK 2 apps so we can get rid of the remaining GNOME 1 / GTK
> 1 cruft as well?
Need specific package nominations.
> Féliciano Matias:
> move to extras dosfstools
This one is needed as mentioned on the list.
> move to extras Lynx (or elinks)
These (and w3m) each have particular quirks that apparently make them all
worthy of inclusion.
> move to extras lesstif and/or openmotif21
openmotif21 may be needed for compatibility. lesstif sounds fine so we'll
see.
> leave openmotif which is used by:
> stardict, ddd, xpdf, nedit, iiimf-le-chinput
> move to extras xpdf
We'll wait until evince gets in.
> move to extras ddd
I think it needs to be maintained in Core for now, as it's the only
graphical debugger worth much.
> Remove rpmdb.
This is useful to some people and is especially needed for building x86_64
trees.
> move experimental gcc (gcc4 in FC3 for example) to Fedora Extra.
No, this is needed for java stuff.
> Alax Cox:
> Possibly joe into extras
Same deal as jed, I suspect.
> Nicolas Mailhot :
> Even better : get rid of all the stuff that doesn't use fontconfig
> yet
Need specific package nominations, please.
The list so far: xloadimage nedit lesstif
Cheers,
-- Elliot
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