some minor Core pruning

Michael J. Knox michael at knox.net.nz
Mon Jun 12 22:10:15 UTC 2006


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Running some dependency analysis on Core yielded a few packages
> in the following groups. This isn't exhaustive, by any means; there
> are still quite a few leaf nodes that are potential Extras candidates.
> 
> Library packages required only by Extras packages (could be moved to
>   extras):
> libgconf-java
> libxml (and only required by the rather old Gtk-Perl)
> 
> 
> Library + binary packages required only by Extras packages (could be
>   moved to extras):
> mikmod
> tog-pegasus
> inn
> 
> Library packages required by *nothing* (could be killed):
> libpng10
> liboldX
> libvolume_id
> 
> Library + binary packages required by nothing (could be killed, or moved):
> linux-atm
> lksctp-tools
> mysqlclient10
> mysqlclient14
> netatalk
> openhpi
> tn5250
> xdelta
> 
> Opinions?
> 

Put them up for adoption on fedora-extras and drop the packages that can 
be dropped...

Slimming down FC is always a good thing ;-)

Michael




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