On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
<[email protected]> wrote:
But I am still in favor to remove it. In past, package we didn't want to
support anymore was just removed from mirrors, and this was enough to
show their status.
But people will not be notified of it.
If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break
things/contain major security problems, I think having a place to put
the obsoletes is good.
But really I wouldn't expect more than 2 or 3 such packages in a release...
The package manager (urpmi) can also notify people because it sees which
installed packages are not in the configured repositories. Zypper even
removes such packages automatically. This would give users the choice to
keep an 'obsolete' package installed, while that choice doesn't exist with
task-obsolete.
Christiaan
