RFC: removal of gtk+ and gnome-1.x from moonbase

[Florin Braescu]

On Sunday 04 March 2007 10:01:10 Kok, Auke wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm suggesting the deletion of all gtk+ 1.2.x -based and gnome-1.x based
> modules from moonbase. This currently comprises about 155 packages.
>
> The motivation is simple: gnome-1.4 is obsolete and unmaintained. gtk-1.2
> and all applications using it are obsolete as well. We - the lunar team -
> should not take on maintaining such a burden or load. These modules take up
> a significant amount of moonbase at no use at all.
>
> I encourage everyone to take a close look at the attached lists (they
> overlap for large parts of course) and engage discussion on this issue.
>
> Also, this is _not_ the time to whine about xmms being the best audio
> player. Those who disagree with me please hold your comments, this
> discussion is about keeping our small project livable.
>
> what *is* the discussion then? Here's some answers we should see:
>
> 1) more removals that fall in the same category or new categories
> 2) regular cleanups of moonbase
> 3) limiting the size of moonbase going forward
> 4) identifying _must_have_ modules that may not be deleted (again, only
> valid long-term arguments please).
> 5) preventive bitrot maintenance and testing (yearly compile tests for
> every module)
>
>

  The whole idea is spledid. However some of the modules may compile and work 
with gtk+-2 (not many, i agree). I think we can create a script which can 
scan the activity file from /var/log/lunar and extract the list of succesfull 
compiles and installs of modules and the date. Then we can e-mail (voluntary) 
the list to the ll.org and the CHECKED (or VERIFIED) field proposed by Duncan 
can be updated with the values from the list. After that we can identify easy 
the list of used modules, date of last verify, who did the check and the list 
of modules which can be removed from the moonbase.

  Florin