On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 08:38:51AM -0500, Eric Warnke wrote:
ElectricFence - Development only nothing depends on it - 1 objection, but I still say it's usage does not justify it remaining in core - there is at least one competing package ( dmalloc, valgrind )
valgrind is i386 only (therefore not a replacement for efence) and dmalloc is far worse then efence. If anything needs to be dumped to Extras, then it is dmalloc, not ElectricFence.
lynx/elinks - 1 objection about scripts using lynx... ether those scripts are not part of core or they are not marked correctly. If you can surf the web with either, you can download them from extras. If either has a dependancy in core the .src.rpm needs to be corrected.
If you install a server, you often don't run X at all and ability to browse web is very useful. Plus it is definitely something e.g. blind people can't miss in the distro. Therefore I strongly object to dropping at least elinks. elinks is really small package btw.
doxygen - Sorce code documentation generator D:0 - 1 objecton - I don't think we necessarly need to keep every build dependancy in core.
Core must be self-hosting.
Jakub