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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Fri Mar 30 10:51:34 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
><i> 2012/3/30 nicolas vigier <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>>:
</I>><i> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
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</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.
</I>><i> >>
</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)
</I>><i> >
</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>><i>
</I>><i> Do all average users know about task-obsolete (I did not, never needed
</I>><i> it) ? You can't use what you don't know about and what has not been
</I>><i> documented in userland. Except you want to narrow down the target
</I>><i> group for Mageia to people with technical knowledge and interest.
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It can be added to the release notes.
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