I'm of the opinion that at least one well-maintained text editor should remain in core - my vote would be for nano, as vi has been outclassed by its clones and ed doesn't see much use nowadays. I have no personal issues with the other suggested cleanup items.
Best, Campbell ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 at 6:05 AM, David Runge <d...@sleepmap.de> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > we need to do a bit of [core] repository cleanup. > > In this MD [1] (publicly visible readonly link [2]) we have a list of > packages that should leave [core], some maybes that need discussion > before moving them and some that should be moved to [core] from the > other repositories. > > If you have more packages, that should not be in [core] anymore or > should be moved to it, please add them to the list(s). > > The general rules for inclusion in [core] are, that we want to > - preserve base-devel as a group there > - preserve base as a meta-package there > - preserve makedepends and depends of a [core] package there > > The checkdepends and also optdepends of a package may reside in other > repositories. > > As we have a few removals of packages in the list that concern packages > only in [core] for historical (or other) reasons, please keep the > discussion about them focused on technical reasons as to why they should > potentially remain there. > > Additionally, we have a few orphan packages in [core] that need > adoption. Please adopt packages (if you can)! > > Best, > David > > [1] https://md.archlinux.org/nrXL0ay5Tp6wP-f5M7N8bA# > [2] https://md.archlinux.org/s/MliseALTG# > > -- > https://sleepmap.de
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