On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:35:24 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > OTOH, if the user installs $package and after an upgrade the package > is gone and the functionality is gone as well, the upgrade _has > failed_, in a very real sense.
Replace $package with $feature, and you get a similar scenario where nothing much can be done either. A new version of a program drops certain features and might hit the user by surprise. Also, in enough situations it cannot be guaranteed that a "orphan" subpackage would still work. It might crash at run-time, if it isn't obsoleted=removed during an upgrade. And what about the Release Notes? Obsolete packages ought to be commented on in there. Even more so if they are not replaced with anything compatible. -- mschwendt Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.4-301.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.00 0.04 0.07 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
