I&#x27;m not opposed to removing stuff which is really, truly, obsolete, but I am concerned about removing useful functionality and never adding it back (c.f. gnome-screensaver, which destroyed the functionality xscreensaver offered and <i>never</i> restored it — it&#x27;s been <i>over a decade</i> and gnome-screensaver is <i>still</i> not a replacement for xscreensaver!).<p>A good part of my concern hinges on the definition of &#x27;obsolete.&#x27;  Code for handling multi-byte characters on black-and-white Macintoshes?  Probably obsolete.  BBDB?  Stagnant but not obsolete (it&#x27;s sad, incidentally, that it <i>is</i> stagnant, but that&#x27;s a post for another time).