[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 30 March 2012 10:40, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.

Actually, if it's obsoleted by task-obsolete, task-obsolete will be
automatically installed.
Providing it's on the media (eg: in the DVD case)