[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

[Anne nicolas]

2012/3/30 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
> 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)

It isn't at the moment. Where should we add it ? rpmsrate ?

-- 
Anne
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