[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request

Sander Lepik sander.lepik at eesti.ee
Fri Jun 8 12:46:24 CEST 2012


08.06.2012 13:37, Pascal Terjan kirjutas:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMHO same applies for other pkgs too, we shouldn't force removal of pkg unless there is
>> some other pkg which replaces the first one. 
> Well there are some other cases
> - Package contains a security problem which will never get fixed
> - App has no way to ever work on future versions of the distro (due to
> being dependant on obsolete stuff)
>
> I think these are the case when task-obsolete is useful
+1
We shouldn't overuse task-obsolete.

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Sander



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