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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Fri Mar 30 10:40:42 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/3/30 nicolas vigier <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>>:
><i> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> On 30 March 2012 10:06, Guillaume Rousse <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> >> We can do like RH&  Ubuntu, provides an empty package that explain sun
</I>>><i> >> doesn't enable us anymore to distribute it and that they've to install (&  update)
</I>>><i> >> it manually from sun.com
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > Why should we manage this case differently from other similar situations ?
</I>>><i> > That's not the first time we remove something from the distribution, because
</I>>><i> > it is not supported anymore usually, and has known available
</I>>><i> > vulnerabilities.
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</I>>><i> Actually, _YOU_ want us to "manage this case differently from other similar
</I>>><i> situations".
</I>>><i> In case you didn't see, other packages are obsoleted by task-obsolete (if
</I>>><i> no better package)
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</I>><i> So I think we should obsolete sun-java in task-obsolete, and add it to
</I>><i> release notes. Then people who want to remove unsupported packages can
</I>><i> install task-obsolete.
</I>
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.
--
wobo
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