On 2018-09-24 15:09 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > AbiWord-3.0.2
> > Gnumeric-1.12.43
> 
> ^ I suggest removing Libreoffice instead. It's a hog, and I can't honestly 
> see anyone spending 45+ SBU building a
> package that downloads its own internal versions anyway. I'm also quite 
> partial to Abiword and Gnumeric though,
> this is just my (biased) opinion. I've never seen it work right once.

Then force everyone to use LaTeX beamer for presentation, and open M$
Office files in a VM?

> > Balsa-2.5.6
> 
> ^ And force everyone to use Thunderbird instead? At least in my case, 
> Thunderbird is highly unstable for a mailbox
> with over 13,000 messages saved. Balsa and Evolution are the only two clients 
> that have ever worked properly.
> Sure, I maintain GNOME - but I'd rather not have to put Evolution on my 
> workstation whenever my new one that I
> ordered comes in.

Agree.  Thunderbird destoryed many mails when I was using Ubuntu.  So
I've never built it since I switched to (B)LFS.

> > feh-2.27.1
> > FontForge-20170731
> > Pidgin-2.13.0
> > Transmission-2.94
> 
> ^ Why are we going to remove this?  We have no replacement for a P2P client. 
> Pidgin is understandable (from a
> maintenance point of view - I'm still going to end up installing it anyway 
> because I have to use it to communicate
> with my college's Jabber system). 
> > xarchiver-0.5.4
> 
> ^ This one is relatively low maintenance, but if you want to remove it, go 
> ahead. I'll just move my workstation to
> Plasma instead of XFCE, as I'd prefer to stay away from File-Roller if I can.
> > Transcode-1.1.7
> > Audacious-3.10
> 
> ^ Any particular reason why? This is a nice package to have around for us 
> audiophiles.
> > Enscript-1.6.6
> > MuPDF-1.13.0
> 
> ^ What do you suggest to replace it? I doubt everyone wants to use Evince or 
> Okular (and Okular has another
> downdraw - it uses JS in PDF files, increasing vulnerability surface [and 
> there is still one we haven't even
> bothered trying to fix!]). In addition, this is used in cups-filters. 
> > paps-0.6.8
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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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