I have a somewhat longer list of exes that I believe can be weeded out:
dvipdfmx
Is that still needed ? I always run xdvipdfmx instead
mktexmf
We don't ship mf sources to take advantage of it
mmafm mmpfb pfb2pfa
All three can go I think
ttf2tfm
Last time I checked this was terribly outdated. It didn't like any of the ttfs I tried to feed it. ttf2afm does much better.
dvips
Dvips needs a bunch of postscript header (.pro) files, that are not in the distro right now, I think. When I tried to run it just now, it was complaining about missing stuff.
dvitodvi
I believe this does something for booklet generation.
kpseaccess kpsestat
those are helpers used by mktexlsr.
gforce, taco can tell, we may put them on the luatex site as well
http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost has mpost binaries for linux-i386 and windows, the rest of the platform binaries would have to come from texlive at the moment.
luatex texlua (same as luatex, I guess, or simply a symbolic link?) texluac (same as luatex, I guess)
the latter two are symlinks, ideally.
xdvipdfmx xetex
+ pdftex.pool and xetex.pool
for the moment yes, taco ... shouldn't we move pools files into the bins?
I thought Jonathan had that planned for 0.997. For pdftex: we had a discussion about the pool file once already, and I am not in the mood to repeat it. Best wishes, Taco