[Mageia-dev] task-obsolete - questions about implementation details and how to disable it

Fri Dec 28 12:12:48 CET 2012

Am 27.12.2012 09:49, schrieb AL13N:
+> Op donderdag 27 december 2012 00:02:28 schreef Florian Hubold:
+>> Am 25.12.2012 22:41, schrieb Charles A Edwards:
+>>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:24:56 +0100
+>>>
+>>> Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>>>>> As root, run this command:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> echo task-obsolete >> /etc/urpmi/skip.list
+>>>>>
+>>>>> This will add task-obsolete into the skip list and you can use
+>>>>> obsoleted software.
+>>>> even easier:
+>>>> rpm -e task-obsolete
+>>> Needed, but if you do not add it to the skip.list it will be
+>>> re-installed the next time you update.
+>>>
+>>>     Charles
+>> OK, so there is currently only the option to have all packages
+>> obsoleted or to have the mechanism completely disabled?
+>> No proper way to only have selected obsoletes?
+>>
+>> @Thierry, do you have any other clever solution here? Or some
+>> workaround or something similar?
+> i just don't think there's any reasonable use case for this. (if you're not a 
+> developer), meaning you can maintain it yourself.
+>
+Well, i just gave one use case (k9copy) which does not need to be maintained,
+but has been obsoleted. Which does not mean in turn, there's a drop-in
+replacement for it and/or that it has become obsolete at all.
+
+With that in mind, quoting the author:
+
+> Published on Sunday, 24 July 2011 Written by Jean-Michel
+>
+> Developments on K9Copy stopped. After seven years, I decided to move on and
+> get involved in other projects.
+>
+> The DVD is obsolete, and I no longer believe in the future of desktop Linux.
+>
+> I started working on this project after the installation of Mandrake. I
+> thought it was wonderful and it could replace Windows. One thing was missing:
+> a software to backup my DVD. That was my first program for Linux. I did not
+> know what language to use, or what programming environment. I chose C + + and
+> KDevelop on KDE, because it worked well on Mandrake.
+>
+Well, the DVD is not really obsolete, many people still use it
+and want to provide contents via DVDs as that is the only widespread
+medium that most people have players for.
+
+But i get what you mean, and this is quite a cornercase ...
+Still i'd be happy if there's some solution for this problem.
+