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+ <B>Guillaume Rousse</B>
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+ <I>Tue May 29 19:38:24 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>Le 29/05/2012 18:29, Jani V&#228;limaa a &#233;crit :
+&gt;<i> On 29.05.2012 18:54, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 'Twas brillig, and Jani V&#228;limaa at 29/05/12 16:13 did gyre and gimble:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> On 29.05.2012 17:38, Sander Lepik wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> 29.05.2012 17:14, wally kirjutas:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Name : task-obsolete Relocations: (not relocatable)
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Version : 3 Vendor: Mageia.Org
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Release : 1.mga3 Build Date: Tue May 29
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> 15:59:18 2012
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> [...]
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> wally&lt;wally&gt; 3-1.mga3:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> + Revision: 249259
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> - obsolete old libxfce4menu pkgs
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Hmm, since when do we obsolete libs like this?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Since task-obsolete was introduced. It's a way to get rid of old,
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> obsoleted and unused pkgs which are also removed from SVN (moved to
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> /packages/obsolete/).
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I wasn't aware we ever did this and I can't think of a good reason to do
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> so either so I would prefer this change was reverted (and any other old
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> libs in there similarly removed from obsoletion).
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> There is a difference between no longer shipping something and no longer
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> supporting it being installed. If I've compiled my own software against
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> any given library I do not want something to remove it automatically and
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> break my build. That's the whole point in having library packaging the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> way we do - to allow them to live on mostly forever on an installed
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> system. If we no longer support something being installed then using
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> task-obsoletes seems wise.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I guess we need another way to drop pkgs easily from our mirrors then.
+</I>rm works fine for this. Using rpm tags, and their associated semantics,
+in order to manage delegate infrastructure management, is just insane.
+We may as well well ship mageia contributer ssh public keys in sshd
+package...
+
+--
+Always draw your curves, then plot your reading
+ -- Murphy's Laws on Technology n&#176;29
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