On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2012/3/30 nicolas vigier <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > > >> On 30 March 2012 10:06, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> We can do like RH& Ubuntu, provides an empty package that explain sun > >> >> doesn't enable us anymore to distribute it and that they've to install > >> >> (& update) > >> >> it manually from sun.com > >> > > >> > Why should we manage this case differently from other similar situations > >> > ? > >> > That's not the first time we remove something from the distribution, > >> > because > >> > it is not supported anymore usually, and has known available > >> > vulnerabilities. > >> > >> 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.
It can be added to the release notes.
