[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 30 March 2012 10:52, Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org> 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 ?

yes in the INSTALL section