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 -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
