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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package up for grabs (almost everything in the livecd herd)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:03:29
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0912311002q6c4b05cdj41e02090728c8cf4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] package up for grabs (almost everything in the livecd herd) by Andrew Gaffney
1 On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
2 > If you are interested in any of the below packages, feel free to steal it (and
3 > change the maintainer and herd bit in the metadata.xml).
4 >
5 > dev-python/pyparted - Used by the now defunct GLI
6
7 This has also not been updated since 2007 --
8 https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/y/pyparted/
9
10 > sys-libs/libkudzu - needed by sys-apps/hwsetup
11 > sys-apps/hwdata-gentoo - Data used by sys-apps/hwsetup
12 > sys-apps/hwsetup - Used for hardware (video mostly) detection for LiveCD
13
14 I don't think these two (three?) are required anymore, what with the
15 hardware detection by the kernel and udev becoming excellent. Maybe
16 they should be tree-cleaned while archiving hwsetup-gentoo's distfiles
17 somewhere?
18
19 > sys-apps/parted - Required by dev-python/pyparted
20
21 And sys-apps/gparted -- if no one else takes this, gnome herd (or I)
22 can take it I suppose
23
24 > sys-fs/squashfs-tools - Used by catalyst to create loop image
25
26 And is useful for anyone who wants to use squashfs
27
28
29 --
30 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
31
32 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team