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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The author of B decides A is obsolete.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 <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
> > What I care about is when I'm using Gorgon, and there's somethingMy bad, my precise intention was to follow up on your idea (which,
\> > "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.
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 $BF|(B
$BK\\J82=$,@w$\_9\~$\`(B....)
Well, Obsoleted-By is pretty strong language for suggesting possible
\> > 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.
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? :-)
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