[Mageia-sysadm] Pkg removal request

Fri Jun 8 18:58:52 CEST 2012

Op vrijdag 8 juni 2012 13:52:30 schreef Sander Lepik:
+> 08.06.2012 13:49, nicolas vigier kirjutas:
+> > On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> >> Well there are some other cases
+> >> - Package contains a security problem which will never get fixed
+> >> - App has no way to ever work on future versions of the distro (due to
+> >> being dependant on obsolete stuff)
+> >> 
+> >> I think these are the case when task-obsolete is useful
+> > 
+> > All software that we remove from the distribution may have security
+> > problems in the future that won't get fixed. So I think we should
+> > obsolete them. People who want to continue using them can still add
+> > task-obsolete to /etc/urpmi/skip.list.
+> 
+> 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.
+
+it's not about installing, it's about removing. and imho, we shouldn't spend 
+resources to make something easy which would be unsupported anyway. If people 
+really want it, it's their responsibility for not following our guidelines.
+
+let's be honest, people who don't know how to put this in to skip list, aren't 
+people who are gonna care about this.
+
+that being said, i have no issue if people put this in skip list. except that 
+they should know what they do and don't complain if they get hacked.
+