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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages |
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Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:09:13 +0000 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > Also, can you give an example of something that is obsolete but
> > shouldn't be removed? That might help me understand your concern.
>
> defadvice might be a good example.
Perhaps we need an intermediate directory, called "deprecated". Not
obsolete, should probably still autoload -- putting defadvice into
obsolete will break some packages for this reason alone, but should
produce warnings.
The intention would be that "deprecated" packages would move to
"obsolete" there after.
Phil
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, (continued)
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Phillip Lord, 2016/01/11
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/11
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/11
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/12
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages,
Phillip Lord <=
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/15
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/16
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/18
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Richard Stallman, 2016/01/19
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Phillip Lord, 2016/01/19