On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 02:30:48PM +0200, John Marino wrote: > On 10/20/2012 13:24, Thomas Klausner wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I'd like to propose removing > > arts (sound system used by KDE3) > >and > > aalib (ASCII Art library) > >from the default-on options to the default-off options. > > > >Reasoning: > > > >KDE3 is on the way out; the few people still interested in it can add > >"arts" to their default options. > > > >aalib never was very useful, it was just a fun hack. Sounds good to me. > The loss is clear, what's the anticipated gain? > To lessen the dependencies to build KDE3? To not have arbitrary packages depend on the obsolete arts. It's not only KDE3 that had support for arts: many other packages throughout the tree have an option to use it. And the KDE3 packages don't have such option, so the change doesn't affect them.