Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Petteri R?ty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> dev-java/saxon-bin is going to be removed from the tree as soon as the
>> from sources version dev-java/saxon gets marked stable on arches that
>> have saxon-bin stable. I will add a package move and a revision bump so
>> that user will have a smooth upgrade. I will also adjust app-text/jing
>> to work with the from sources version.
> 
> Are such things also announced separately on some user list ?
> The problem I see: from the view of an common user (who's not 
> reading the dev lists) packages they're using suddenly disappear. 
> They don't have time to handle it properly.
> 
> There should be an additional flagging (ie. scheduled for masking
> or removal), maybe such flags could be put into an separate
> database (ie. some textfile available via web or rsync).
> 

Things scheduled for removal (by treecleaners, and I hope by many) enter
pmask prior to removal; this is really the current system of notification.

> An tool could check if the current system has some of those
> scheduled packages installed.
> 
> 
> cu

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