Packages from the 1990s and 2000s
Here is a modest suggestion: go through the list of packages and consider removing the ones that have not been updated in the past decade. Many of them are only of historical interest. Users who want them can get the source code from older Slackware releases.
This could reduce the maintenance effort. Ed Code:
% cd slackware64/source |
How would removing them reduce the maintenance effort if they have not been updated in the last decade?
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LILO hasn't been updated for years, maybe we should get rid of that as well.
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If something works updates is not required. I'm against remove anything if not broken. Especially Pat build something only if it is required by external reasons (i.e. so version bump).
Moreover some of thing you mention I've used lately, and some are basic tools used in troubleshooting, system maintenance or testing. An I quite sure you use one of this things TODAY and you like it (bsd-games fortune cookie). |
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I dare say there are a few good candidates for moving to pasture/ but not all of those are as useless as EdGr believes.
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I meant that the source code hasn't been updated in a decade. The binaries still need to be built and installed.
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You could have just chmod -x'd the /etc/profile.d/bsd-games-login-fortune.sh. |
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With all due respect, I don't see much of a logical case presented here. All I see are a bunch of bad assumptions. |
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