* Colin Guthrie (mag...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > In my opinion we should run a tight ship. If users want to use something > we no longer ship, then they still have several choices: > 1. Don't install task-obsolete and add it to their skip.list.
As obsoletes are automatically promote, there is no way to keep a package except adding it to skip.list. > 3. Package it and become a contributor (assuming the reason for > dropping the package was due to a lack of maintainer rather than a > specific desire/reason (i.e. legal)) Sys admin work is not to make package. > > For all of these options the user is both informed and can make a very > clear, concious choice about how they want to proceed and know the > consequences of doing so. 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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