On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > I am not currently using anything on the wnpp-list, but it > seems to me that not all these packages are better off gotten > rid off. > > Does anyone know something about the importance of these > packages? > I would suspect packages like: > exim-tls Obsolete with the soon-pending exim 4, iirc. > udhcpd Do we need another dhcp server? > defoma(!) Hopefully somebody will pick it up and make it stop sucking so utterly... > mserver Looks insignificant. > scanmail Loads of alternatives in the archive. > mnogosearch Again, several alternatives. > cadaver You get ten of these to the penny. > phpgroupware Again, several alternatives. > pppoeconf Yay, another config tool. Just what we need. > pptp-linux AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt many people will be hugely affected. > to be of some importance. I feel obliged to take responsibility for > at least one of them, but - as I said - I use none of them (except > for defoma of course). > > So, do we have some way of separating that which we really want > to get rid off from that which unfortuneately has been orphaned? If nobody is willing to take responsibility for it, we want to get rid of it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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