Package pruning for FC4 and beyond

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Mon Feb 28 03:08:48 UTC 2005


Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Eric Warnke wrote:
>> ElectricFence - Development only nothing depends on it - 1 objection,
>> but I still say it's usage does not justify it remaining in core - there
>> is at least one competing package ( dmalloc, valgrind )
> 
> valgrind is i386 only (therefore not a replacement for efence) and
> dmalloc is far worse then efence.  If anything needs to be dumped to
> Extras, then it is dmalloc, not ElectricFence.

Yes yes yes and yes.





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