On 07.06.2012 23:15, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 21:46:50 +0200 (CEST) > wally wrote: > >> This package is used to obsolete packages that are no longer >> supported. >> >> wally <wally> 3-5.mga3: >> + Revision: 257115 >> - obsolete mousepad and xfprint > > Just because we are dropping a pkg from the distro Does Not mean that > the pkg either needs to be or should be obsoleted. > > Both mousepad and xfprint still work in mga3 and it should be up to the > user whether he wishes to remove them from his system. > > I pushed for the removal of both apps from the mirrors, as they are > dead, upstream but I strongly object to the practice of adding Any > working application to task-obsolete. > > My loathing is such that task-obsolete is the #1 on my urpmi skip.list. > >
Yep.. https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2012-June/004459.html We should rethink how we drop pkgs from mirrors.
