bug#57412: Could we make linum.el obsolete?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:08:06 +0000
> 
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Is there any reason to keep linum.el around any longer, or could it be
> marked obsolete in favor of `display-line-numbers-mode'?

The only possible reason is that linum.el allows more freedom in
formatting the line numbers and their faces.  I don't know whether
this reason is serious enough to not obsolete linum.el.