[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

[nicolas vigier]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> 2012/3/30 nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org>:
> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> >
> >> On 30 March 2012 10:06, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> We can do like RH&  Ubuntu, provides an empty package that explain sun
> >> >> doesn't enable us anymore to distribute it and that they've to install (&  update)
> >> >> it manually from sun.com
> >> >
> >> > Why should we manage this case differently from other similar situations ?
> >> > That's not the first time we remove something from the distribution, because
> >> > it is not supported anymore usually, and has known available
> >> > vulnerabilities.
> >>
> >> 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.

It can be added to the release notes.