Re: List of deletion candidates

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On Sunday, February 4th, 2024 at 3:19 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> nia nia%NetBSD.org@localhost writes:
> 
> > hi, i'm okay with this.
> > 
> > - because it's rust, they're all leaf packages. their removal
> > is unlikely to cause any harm.
> > 
> > - because it's rust, deleting them reduces bulk loads significantly,
> > much fewer distfiles, etc.
> > 
> > - because it's rust, there will be code rot eventually that we have
> > to face.
> > 
> > - because these packages are relatively recent additions,
> > they are unlikely to have long term users that are heavily dependent
> > on them.
> 
> 
> Those are fair points. I didn't mean to say "no we shouldn't delete
> them", just that I would like to see a balancing of "do we believe there
> are users" and "what is the harm", and that I often find that missing in
> removal proposals, even though I suspect it's in the heads of the
> proposers. You've made a good case that the cleanup benefit is greater
> than then downside.

@nia, these are exactly the reasons that make me want to remove these.
I must say I didn't think of the distfiles, though :)

If there are no objections and/or users, I will remove these after Feb. 16