[discussion] useless packages

[apprehensions]

the following packages have been considered useless due to having no recursal dependency in any package, i will be biased and mark packages that i deem 'useful'. but alot of packages here do not really have a purpose and the sole maintainer @ehawkvu, keeps these packages although i believe they should be removed for good.

• [X] firefox
• [X] liberation-fonts
• [X] libva-utils
• [X] mpv
• [X] libXres
• [X] libXv
• [X] setxkbmap
• [X] sowm
• [X] tinyx
• [ ] twm
• [X] xcursorgen
• [ ] xdpyinfo
• [X] xev
• [X] xf86-input-libinput
• [X] xf86-video-amdgpu
• [X] xf86-video-ati
• [X] xf86-video-intel
• [X] xf86-video-nouveau
• [X] xf86-video-vesa
• [ ] xinit - obsoleted by sx
• [X] xinput
• [X] xrdb
• [ ] xrectsel - obsoleted by slop
• [X] xset
• [X] xsetroot
• [X] xwayland
• [ ] 2bwm
• [ ] 9wm
• [ ] abiword
• [X] alacritty
• [ ] alttab-git
• [X] apint
• [ ] autorandr
• [X] azpainter
• [ ] bdfedit
• [ ] berry
• [ ] brownout
• [ ] bspwm
• [X] chromium
• [X] ctwm
• [X] cwm
• [ ] dillo - obsoleted by a program midfavila probably made
• [X] dmenu
• [X] dosbox
• [ ] doxygen
• [X] dragon-git - should be renamed dragon though
• [X] dwm
• [ ] dzen
• [X] emacs
• [ ] emacs-alpha
• [ ] emacs-git
• [X] farbfeld
• [X] feh
• [X] fontforge
• [ ] frankenwm
• [X] fvwm
• [ ] gettext-tiny
• [X] gimp
• [X] glmark2
• [X] gnuplot
• [X] godot
• [ ] grabc
• [X] graphviz - whats the difference between this and gnuplot?
• [X] herbe
• [X] herbstluftwm
• [ ] hexchat
• [X] hsetroot
• [ ] i3
• [X] inkscape
• [ ] irrlicht
• [ ] jansson
• [X] jwm
• [X] lemonbar
• [X] librewolf
• [ ] libsoup3 - should be renamed to libsoup after #24
• [ ] libspectre
• [ ] libtasn1
• [X] lxappearance
• [X] maim
• [ ] meh
• [X] motif
• [ ] mplayer
• [ ] mypaint-brushes
• [X] netsurf-gtk3
• [X] nsxiv
• [ ] openscad
• [ ] otf2bdf
• [ ] palemoon
• [X] picom
• [ ] picom-git
• [ ] qt5-x11extras
• [ ] rxvt-unicode
• [ ] sasm
• [ ] schismtracker
• [ ] sct
• [ ] skippy-xd-git
• [X] slock
• [ ] slock-paranoid-git
• [ ] solvespace
• [X] spectrwm
• [ ] srain
• [ ] st-luke-git
• [X] stalonetray
• [X] stw
• [X] svkbd
• [X] sx
• [X] sxcs
• [X] sxhkd
• [ ] sxiv
• [ ] sylpheed
• [X] tabbed
• [ ] tinywm
• [ ] tkdiff
• [ ] vimb
• [ ] vimb-git
• [X] windowmaker
• [ ] winetricks
• [ ] wxWidgets
• [X] wyeb
• [ ] x11fs
• [X] x11vnc
• [X] xbanish
• [X] xclip
• [X] xcompmgr
• [ ] xdo
• [X] xdotool
• [X] xf86-video-fbdev
• [X] xf86-video-qxl
• [X] xf86-video-vmware
• [X] xfiles
• [X] xhost
• [X] xkill
• [X] xmenu
• [ ] xmodmap
• [X] xnotify
• [ ] xrandr-invert-colors
• [X] xsel
• [ ] xssstate
• [X] xwallpaper
• [X] xwm
• [ ] zircon
• [ ] zutty

however, i have only did that list as a point of reference, as according to some packages in #109 , some are actually not used very commonly or i should say take up some space; this issue should be closed immediately if the repository maintainer disagrees with the removal of package abandonments.

i do believe certain packages SHOULD be removed Effective. such as sxiv, which is deprecated. there are probably other deprecated packages in this list as well.

[echawk]

I don't think that removing 'useless' packages is the smartest move. I'm ok with removing completely, and actually deprecated packages like sxiv.

[apprehensions]

thanks for your comment, I have realized this due to the fact that most of the deprecated packages are maintained only by the literal repository creator, sorry for assuming. I had really only made this issue due to the oblivious amount of packages, as I had seen some that no longer have a use. Some packages are also old or deprecated, but one would need to go through all of them.