[Slackbuilds-users] Unmaintained builds - want any of these?

Robby Workman rworkman at slackbuilds.org
Thu Jan 2 23:13:57 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 22:01:16 +1000
Christoph Willing <chris.willing at linux.com> wrote:

> Others I noticed which should perhaps be saved for similar reasons:
> 
> development/snappy is an optional dependency of wireshark and qemu, as
> well as being a hard dependency of libraries/rocksdb.
> 
> libraries/gl2ps is an optional dependency for both
> graphics/OpenCASCADE and academic/octave
> 
> libraries/id3lib is an (undocumented) optional dep for multimedia/kodi
> 
> libraries/libshout is a hard dep of multimedia/vlc
> 
> libraries/libxml++ is a hard dep of libraries/libffado
> 
> Even if they are all (by whatever definition) dead, removal of them
> impacts badly on other SlackBuilds that remain. Therefore could I
> suggest they be removed from DeadSBoBuilds?


I've removed them from the list for now because they are outside the
scope of what I intended to be on it, but the fact remains that they
will need active maintainers.

-RW
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