[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> In my opinion we should run a tight ship. If users want to use something
> we no longer ship, then they still have several choices:
>  1. Don't install task-obsolete and add it to their skip.list.

As obsoletes are automatically promote, there is no way to keep a package
except adding it to skip.list.

>  3. Package it and become a contributor (assuming the reason for
> dropping the package was due to a lack of maintainer rather than a
> specific desire/reason (i.e. legal))

Sys admin work is not to make package.

> 
> For all of these options the user is both informed and can make a very
> clear, concious choice about how they want to proceed and know the
> consequences of doing so.

This system silently remove packages. I am pretty sure a lot of people
will wonder why some need libraries get removed from their system at
each update...

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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS  -  LATMOS
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