[Mageia-dev] Yet another list of missing packages

Thu Mar 10 16:21:57 CET 2011

On 10 March 2011 16:13, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> I think we should do some cleaning.
+> - zcip is dead upstream ( but I imported before seeing this )
+> - rpm-rebuilder is IMHO not used much
+
+and is somewhat obsoleted by modern BS even if user case is somewhat different
+
+> - zaptel-* are deprecated, that's now called dadhi
+> - rio500, does people still have this hardware ?
+> - sndconfig, same question ( afaik, it serve to configure isa sound
+> cards )
+
+was usefull since we cannot automatically support ISA cards
+(no easy way to detect, detection could deadlock machines, ...)
+(at least pnp* isn't needed since kernel-2.6.x?)
+But ISApnp cards cannot be inserted in modern machines for ~8 years.
+Dunno until what years ISA sound chips got still implemented on motherboards.
+At least, I haven't seen any request for ISA support for 4-5 years.
+
+> There is also a lot of hardware related software, can people check if
+> this is still used ?
+
+we mainly miss binary dkms packages IMHO
+