On Thu 27 Mar 2008 22:35:33 NZDT +1300, Stephan Kulow wrote:
But I want to get rid of this mass of unlisted packages, so here is the list of remaining packages. These are not Alpha3 and I would like some people to review the list for packages that should be on Beta1.
I can say which packages of that list I use regularly, but not what pattern they should be in.
aide
Only intrusion detection shipped. There used to be an old stripped free version of tripwire, but that was prob getting too old to be useful (newer ones are not free). Not many (any?) alternatives.
alien
Convert debs to rpms for testing them out. Useful.
alsamixergui alsa-plugins-samplerate alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui
Don't know, are there alternatives, esp for alsa-tools?
audacity
I understand this is the only audio editor worth having.
blender
Commonly used render program. Distro would be incomplete without, though I don't use it myself.
bonnie bonnie++
Are there better disk performance test programs than these?
busybox
Keep for emergencies.
bzip2-doc
Surely this belongs with bzip2?
chkrootkit
Keep.
ckermit
Old communications package. Used seldom, but when, is essential.
dar
There are probably people relying on this for their backup schemes.
ddrescue
The SUSE version is HEAPS better than the GNU one! Or has that changed?
detex
(La)tex to ASCII converter. Useful and without alternative.
djvulibre
Alternatives to reading this file format?
dvi2tty
.dvi to ASCII converter. I use this occasionally, no alternative I can think of.
flac
This looks like an essential command line tool for handling that audio format to me.
gv
I use this all the time because I don't like the KDE overhead, and gv still has some user interface functions which never made it into kpdf. It also shows postscript files (kpdf does not, that shows a pdf conversio instead, which isn't necessarily the same). Essential IMHO.
html2text
Often has a very good html to text rendering not reached by any other tool. I use this daily in scripts.
kernel-docs
Uhm, isn't this mandatory for a Linux distro?
lftp
Which other ftp client can do an easy ftp file upload?
mmv
In daily use for multi-renaming of files using shell globs. There's no GUI for this sort of thing and nothing else for the same job (bash doesn't cut it in effeiciency here). Absolutely essential IMHO.
netatalk
Anyone still using appletalk?
openmotif
Essential for nedit.
par
Paragraph formatter which I use daily because it can keep initial comment characters.
postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-server
Are you really thinking of discontinuing postgresql?
pptpd
I understand there are quite a few places which only allow VPNs with this Redmond stuff.
privoxy
I'm relying on this every time I look at a web page. Web-browsers' filters suck for 2 reasons: they only work with their own browser (so I get to set that up per browser - no thanks), and they aren't flexible enough.
seccheck
Useful as long as it's maintained. I've been running it on most of my systems.
statserial
Some people still use serial ports. USB-to-serial converters a-la FTDI are very common.
subversion-doc subversion-python subversion-server subversion-tools
Documentation for subversion would be essential (unless it's now in another subversion package). I can see the others being useful too.
unison
Similar to rsync, but works in both directions.
wondershaper
A very good start for bandwidth management, I would (and have) modified those scripts rather than start over.
xfsdump
Isn't that needed when using XFS filesystems?
xpdf
Its tools and its pdf interpreter are absolutely essential. I use the GUI too with dodgy PDFs and to check on rendering differences against gv and acroread. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org