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   <H1>[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request</H1>
    <B>Sander Lepik</B> 
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    <I>Fri Jun  8 12:52:30 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>08.06.2012 13:49, nicolas vigier kirjutas:
&gt;<i> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Well there are some other cases
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> - Package contains a security problem which will never get fixed
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> - App has no way to ever work on future versions of the distro (due to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> being dependant on obsolete stuff)
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I think these are the case when task-obsolete is useful
</I>&gt;<i> All software that we remove from the distribution may have security
</I>&gt;<i> problems in the future that won't get fixed. So I think we should
</I>&gt;<i> obsolete them. People who want to continue using them can still add
</I>&gt;<i> task-obsolete to /etc/urpmi/skip.list.
</I>In that case there should be easy way in GUI to skip this package. Is there? As i don't see
normal users editing this file manually. They will pick another distro that will let them
install packages they want.

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Sander

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