Volunteers? was Re: further package removals/potential package removals

[Nick Bargnesi]

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:57:57 -0500 (EST), Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

I know of quite a few applications using openmotif that standardize on
Red Hat / Fedora Core distributions.  Is the suggestion to remove 2.1
keeping 2.2?

> 
> >         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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