2009/12/4 Stefan Seyfried
And it will screw up stuff like dependencies etc. and make everything slower.
But the repository metadata could have an extra file with no-longer-present packages, which would only be consulted if e.g. "zypper search" finds out that the package is not available. It could even be used to point to alternate repositories etc...
To me the package management has enough work, managing the current packages in repo's without having cruft of discontinued packages accreting gradually in future releases. It may be confusing to have packages listed, that are actually not installable. Having such would likely mean requests to have "discontinued" & "active" filter in YaST Software Manager. Traditionally this is kind of thing you expect to find in the Release Notes, but that has never been especially effective. Now there's a utility been introduced "cnf" to report information to the user who can query missing commands, it validates PATH and searches in package repo. Couldn't it also search in a DB of "discontinued" of dropped files and package names, and return summary info, suggested alternative and URL to the drop announcement web page which has the rationale? Keeps the information "out of band" and in a non-critical part of the system. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org