Re: Diety UI draft

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> wrote:
> > > Do you have any other ideas?
> > 
> > The presence, in a packages file, of either a newer version of
> > the package or a package which superceeds the package should be
> > required before a package may be considered obsolete.
> 
> This is insufficient.  Some packages just get removed because they are
> old, useless, and unmaintained.
> 
> For example, I just removed my "ZyXel" package.  I never used it and neither
> did anyone else for all I can tell.  It's old and I don't want to spend time
> maintaining it, so I moved it to project/orphaned.
> 
> No other package will ever superceed it.

Is it the job of the packaging system to know about this?  I don't see
how it can know intent if we're not going to be feeding that information
into it.

-- 
Raul


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