[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Heads-Up: Obsoletion of 39 old packages

[Marcel Telka]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 08:41:14AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 1/9/24 07:24, Marcel Telka wrote:
> > All of them are:
> > - very old - they are more than 10 years old
> > - not maintained - we have no knowledge how to build them (there are no
> >    build recipes for them in oi-userland)
> 
> A fair number of them are actually impossible for you to maintain as we
> never released the sources for them (things like the Solaris CDE & Motif
> packages), and are likely just repackaging of the redistributable binaries
> from OpenSolaris, complete with the bugs and security holes they had back
> in 2010.
> 
> A few are open source - for instance, I could point you to the sources for
> x11/network/x11-network-proxies - but no one uses that in a world where
> ssh X11-Forwarding is prevalent, which is why I removed that package from
> Solaris and declared the upstream sources unmaintained and suggested that
> distros remove them.

Thanks for insights.  This caused I looked closer at x11/network/rstart
which is still required by mate_install and I noticed it is deprecated
too, so I created https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/pull/15571 .

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