[packman] Moving xmms from Essentials somewhere else

Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chvatal at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 19:17:00 CET 2015


2015-12-30 18:50 GMT+01:00 marguerite <i at marguerite.su>:

> Hi,
>
> > 在 2015年12月31日,00:07,Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chvatal at gmail.com> 写道:
> >
> >
> >
> > 2015-12-30 15:39 GMT+01:00 Marguerite Su <i at marguerite.su>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Tomáš Chvátal <
> tomas.chvatal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > as xmms is old as ages it is still used as multimedia player, but it
> pulls
> >> > in ton of things like gtk1 and libxml1 that are quite expected to have
> >> > security vulterabilities.
> >> >
> >> > It would probably be good to:
> >> >
> >> > a) remove it - everyone would scream
> >> > b) move it to some xmms repository to not let people on essentials
> >> > accidentaly install some sec hole.
> >>
> >> Advice taken, moved to Multimedia :-)
> >
> > That is not good idea either, it should all go to another repo as whole.
> Also you have to move all the glib1 gtk1 and so on.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Okay, I will move them too tomorrow.
>
> BTW, we have a repository named "R.I.P", how about moving xmms and all its
> dependencies there?
>
> That's almost the same as removal, but specfile, patches can be preserved.
>

That should be enough I guess. :)

Tom



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