[elrepo-devel] Deprecating packages

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On 6 March 2010 20:38, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

>> 1. Announce to the ML that the package is deprecated and recommend the
>> user 'rpm -e kmod-foo' removes the package in favour of the kernel
>> module (as of kernel > X)

> I am more in favour of option 1. Indeed that is the method I used,
> once RHEL 5.4 was released, with the kmod-ath5k & kmod-mac80211
> packages. I would prefer a system administrator to retain complete
> control of { her | his } system and not expect me to do anything for {
> her | him } other than advise that a "yum remove kmod-phoo" or "rpm -e
> kmod-phoo" for when kernel > 2.6.18-blah-blah.el5 is installed.

I think that option 1 is not even an option -- it is a must.  Then the
question would boil down to " do we want to do something in addition
to making announcement? "

So far, 'doing nothing' seems to be preferred.  :)

Akemi