some packages that can be removed from Core

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Dec 20 06:00:43 UTC 2005


Jeff Garzik (jgarzik at redhat.com) said: 
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:56:01PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > perl-Archive-Tar
> > perl-Crypt-SSLeay
> 
> Highly popular, like openssl-devel.
> 
> 
> > perl-DateManip
> > perl-IO-String
> > perl-IO-Zlib
> 
> I'm really surprised these are unused.
> 
> 
> > perl-XML-Dumper
> > perl-XML-Grove
> > perl-XML-LibXML
> > perl-XML-LibXML-Common
> > perl-XML-NamespaceSupport
> > perl-XML-SAX
> > perl-XML-Twig
> 
> It's a bit nice to have the Perl version of libxml.  Other than that, I
> totally agree.

Yes, but... none of these are being used by anything in Core - hence,
I don't see why they couldn't be in Extras.

Bill




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