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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Package removal proposal</H1>
    <B>Olivier Thauvin</B> 
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    <I>Sun Aug 26 22:47:06 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>* Colin Guthrie (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>) wrote:
&gt;<i> In my opinion we should run a tight ship. If users want to use something
</I>&gt;<i> we no longer ship, then they still have several choices:
</I>&gt;<i>  1. Don't install task-obsolete and add it to their skip.list.
</I>
As obsoletes are automatically promote, there is no way to keep a package
except adding it to skip.list.

&gt;<i>  3. Package it and become a contributor (assuming the reason for
</I>&gt;<i> dropping the package was due to a lack of maintainer rather than a
</I>&gt;<i> specific desire/reason (i.e. legal))
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Sys admin work is not to make package.

&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> For all of these options the user is both informed and can make a very
</I>&gt;<i> clear, concious choice about how they want to proceed and know the
</I>&gt;<i> consequences of doing so.
</I>
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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