[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

Fri Mar 30 11:14:03 CEST 2012

2012/3/30 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+> On 30 March 2012 10:40, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>>> Actually, _YOU_ want us to "manage this case differently from other similar
+>>>> situations".
+>>>> In case you didn't see, other packages are obsoleted by task-obsolete (if
+>>>> no better package)
+>>>
+>>> So I think we should obsolete sun-java in task-obsolete, and add it to
+>>> release notes. Then people who want to remove unsupported packages can
+>>> install task-obsolete.
+>>
+>> Do all average users know about task-obsolete (I did not, never needed
+>> it) ? You can't use what you don't know about and what has not been
+>> documented in userland. Except you want to narrow down the target
+>> group for Mageia to people with technical knowledge and interest.
+>
+> Actually, if it's obsoleted by task-obsolete, task-obsolete will be
+> automatically installed.
+> Providing it's on the media (eg: in the DVD case)
+
+Ok, thx for the explanation.
+
+But thinking further task-obsolete will not be needed in this case:
+
+People who install a new system can not install it because it is removed anyway.
+People who update will get an update of java-sun-plugin telling them
+about the removal of the package and the reason
+
+Or do I misunderstand?
+
+-- 
+wobo
+