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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

I think nlinum is supposed to support everything that linum does (and is
faster and less buggy) -- but I haven't looked in detail.

If that's the case, then I think it would make sense to obsolete
linum.el.