[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal

Sun Aug 26 22:47:06 CEST 2012

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> In my opinion we should run a tight ship. If users want to use something
+> we no longer ship, then they still have several choices:
+>  1. Don't install task-obsolete and add it to their skip.list.
+
+As obsoletes are automatically promote, there is no way to keep a package
+except adding it to skip.list.
+
+>  3. Package it and become a contributor (assuming the reason for
+> dropping the package was due to a lack of maintainer rather than a
+> specific desire/reason (i.e. legal))
+
+Sys admin work is not to make package.
+
+> 
+> For all of these options the user is both informed and can make a very
+> clear, concious choice about how they want to proceed and know the
+> consequences of doing so.
+
+This system silently remove packages. I am pretty sure a lot of people
+will wonder why some need libraries get removed from their system at
+each update...
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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