On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 05:20:43AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>The discussion about pine made me realize that it was pretty confusing >>to have obsolete packages listed on the packages page. So I deleted >>them. I also deleted the equivalent entries from setup.ini. > >I'm confused. You mean you removed all obsolete packages from >setup.ini? What then is the purpose of the "Hide obsolete packages" >checkbox in setup.exe? > >Those packages are still in the archive, right? So if a person did >want to install them, they'd have to go to their mirror, manually >download them and untar them?
No, pine is not in the archive. By obsolete I actually meant nonexistent. But, you really could just grep for obsolete in setup.ini to see that there are still plenty of packages whose category is "_obsolete". cgf
