[Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olivier Thauvin
> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> 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 If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break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