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*daemons*), and other useful packages can be found here.
+``legacy``: Orphaned, unmaintained, or deprecated packages
+``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
+The ``legacy`` directory contains packages that were at one time supported by
+Adélie, but are no longer. This could be because upstream no longer maintains
+the software, its Adélie maintainer has dropped it and nobody has taken it, or
+it has been deprecated or replaced with something else.
+
+Use of packages in ``legacy`` are highly discouraged, and packages may be
+removed at any time.
+
+
Usage