How to use Obsoletes: The author of B decides A is obsolete.
A releases an empty version of itself that Requires: B B Obsoletes: A The package manager says "These packages are obsolete: A". Would you like to remove them? User says "OK". On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>wrote: > PJ Eby writes: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull < > step...@xemacs.org>wrote: > > > > What I care about is when I'm using Gorgon, and there's something > > > "better" (or worse, "correct") to use in my application. > > > > Hence my suggestion for an Obsoleted-By field, in which Gorgon would be > > able to suggest alternatives. > > My bad, my precise intention was to follow up on your idea (which, > credit where credit is due, I had *not* hit upon independently). I > should have made that clear. > > (I really shouldn't be answering English email at a Japanese-speaking > conference, my brain thinks it knows what it's doing but shirazuni 日 > 本文化が染み込む....) > > > > It might be a good idea to have a just-like-Amazon > > > > > > While-This-Package-Is-Great-You-Might-Also-Consider: > > > > > > field. > > > > Yeah, that's basically what Obsoleted-By is for. > > Well, Obsoleted-By is pretty strong language for suggesting possible > alternatives. But I suspect that few projects would really want to be > suggesting competitors' products *or* their own oldie-but-still-goodie > that they'd really like to obsolete ASAP (put an Obsoleted-By line in > every Python 2 distribution, anyone? :-) > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/dholth%40gmail.com >
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