On 30 March 2012 10:40, Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Actually, _YOU_ want us to "manage this case differently from other similar >>> situations". >>> In case you didn't see, other packages are obsoleted by task-obsolete (if >>> no better package) >> >> So I think we should obsolete sun-java in task-obsolete, and add it to >> release notes. Then people who want to remove unsupported packages can >> install task-obsolete. > > Do all average users know about task-obsolete (I did not, never needed > it) ? You can't use what you don't know about and what has not been > documented in userland. Except you want to narrow down the target > group for Mageia to people with technical knowledge and interest.
Actually, if it's obsoleted by task-obsolete, task-obsolete will be automatically installed. Providing it's on the media (eg: in the DVD case)
