[csw-maintainers] Drop koffice_gcc ?

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Wed Dec 21 15:46:46 CET 2011


Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Am 21.12.2011 um 13:04 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>>> I am redoing some of the baselibs for ImageMagick and would like to drop one
>>> old package (the only one requirung legacy ilmbase libs):
>>>  koffice_gcc
>>> I don't see that this is going to be updated in the future as desktop Solaris is
>>> pretty much dead.
>>> 
>>> Comments?
>> 
>> Nothing against dropping the package. However, I don't see what has this
>> to do with the desktop environment. Maybe there is something to clarify
>> in what you/we understand by "desktop environment".
>
> I meant applications that are mainly useful if you are using Solaris for your
> desktop. An office application I would say is in this category, but e.g. not
> the gtk Wireshark GUI, which can be useful even on a server for debugging
> purposes.

Thank you. That is more precise.

However, I can use a GUI enabled application as kOffice in the same case
as Wireshark isn't it.

Anyhow, just drop the beast if there is no maintainer for it.
-- 
Peter


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