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I don't even know why we have this package, but that's besides the point. I don't think that this package should be a dependency of any package. Sure it can be an optional package, but it shouldn't be a dependency. Archlinux was supposed to be for experienced linux users and not have branding. I don't see the point of having links to the sites that www.archlinux.org itself links to. It's not hard to enter that url in the url bar. We definitely do not want users that are incapable of doing so. How did they even get the ISO in the first place?

A similar opinion was expressed on the bbs: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=24708. The suggested solution was to just "pacman -Rd archlinux-menus". I don't think that's acceptable since the package will be back on an upgrade anyway. Also the notion of having to remove packages from Archlinux is just sickening to me. That's not what Arch was meant to be like. It was supposed to be the distro where you install what you want, not remove what you don't want. I asked for opinions on the IRC channel and pretty much everyone agreed that it's a pointless package. Only one out of about 7 or 8 people thought it was useful. Running a google search will also produce a bunch of rants and various negative opinions of the package.

I don't want this to come off as a rant, but I suppose it is. I don't really use the gnome or KDE menues, but I am somehow irritated by the package whenever I see it. Please remove the dependency.