remove optional packages: extra_docs-20070208, java3d-20070901, knoboo-20080411

[William Stein]

Hi,

I propose that we remove the optional package "extra_docs-20070208"
from sage completely. It's static copies of documentation from 8
years ago relevant to sage. It's a package I made. Clearly I'm
not updating it.

I also think we should remove java3d-20070901 and knoboo-20080411.

In fact, I would be OK with removing all of the following as official
optional Sage packages that appear when doing "sage -optional" on a
fresh sage-6.5 install:

salvus@compute:/usr/local/sage/sage-6.5$ ./sage -optional|grep not
PyQt_x11-4.9.1.p0 ....................... not installed
TOPCOM-0.17.4 ........................... not installed
autotools-20121217 ...................... not installed
beautifulsoup-3.2.1 ..................... not installed # in pypi
extra_docs-20070208 ..................... not installed
gcc-4.6.4 ............................... not installed # doesn't
standard sage have a newer gcc?
ginv-1.9-20080723 ....................... not installed # dated
java3d-20070901 ......................... not installed # surely
broken/useless
knoboo-20080411 ......................... not installed # ancient
libogg-1.1.4 ............................ not installed
libtheora-1.1.1 ......................... not installed
mpi4py-1.2.2 ............................ not installed
openmpi-1.4.3 ........................... not installed
openssl-1.0.1c.p0 ....................... not installed
sip-4.13.2.p0 ........................... not installed
trac-0.11.5.p0 .......................... not installed

[kcrisman]

In fact, I would be OK with removing all of the following as official
optional Sage packages that appear when doing "sage -optional" on a
fresh sage-6.5 install:
 

 

beautifulsoup-3.2.1 ..................... not installed  # in pypi

Then we would need to update some documentation and so forth.

 

gcc-4.6.4 ............................... not installed  # doesn't
standard sage have a newer gcc?

Yes

 

ginv-1.9-20080723 ....................... not installed  # dated
java3d-20070901 ......................... not installed   # surely
broken/useless

http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16647

 

knoboo-20080411 ......................... not installed   # ancient

yes

 

libogg-1.1.4 ............................ not installed
libtheora-1.1.1 ......................... not installed

maybe?  Worth keeping on the server, I think.

 

openssl-1.0.1c.p0 ....................... not installed

is that because we have the updated package?

> trac-0.11.5.p0 .......................... not installed

yes