Re: Diety UI draft

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> > > 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.

I'd say that if a package disappears from every distribution that the
user is looking at and nothing has "replaced" it, then it can be considered
to be obsolete.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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