[Slackbuilds-users] D Woodfall's builds (aka dive, aka bedlam)

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2026, David Chmelik wrote:

>       calc: calc (C-style arbitrary precision calculator) 
> 
> I'm interested in calc and maybe some others

Grab them whenever you're ready, unless someone else gets them first.

>       ph: ph (A fast Slackware Package History tool) 
> 
> I hope someone takes ph and would consider it.

I would take it myself, but I've got over 1000 builds now...

>       purple-facebook: purple-facebook (Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple) 
> 
> As a heavy long-time user, I can safely say purple-facebook is dead: all third-party Meta/FB/IG/WA stopped working years ago because of their restrictions/breakage
> (except really restricted graphical stuff maybe like running a web login in an electron client)

OK, just removed it, thanks for letting me know.

>       regionset: regionset (set dvd drive region) 
> 
> That one is interesting/important but doubt I'll take it... quite a several/few are; just don't want to get overloaded, but I want to keep updated on what happens to
> dive's--are orphaned SlackBuilds eventually removed?  I orphaned Mathics and all dependencies I worked on (some people maybe took over some dependencies or might
> consider, because some were used) because it's a 'mess of Python dependencies' (and the mess is growing as such)... kind of would like to see it continue, but may
> have gone beyond what I can handle for what it's worth when there's other stuff like Wolfram Engine.

Orphaned SlackBuilds will eventually get removed. Right now the automated
process that will do that, doesn't exist yet. See:

https://slackbuilds.org/orphaned_builds_faq/