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From: | Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: | bug#34390: package.el says "Obsolete" when it means "No Longer Used" |
Date: | Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:25:48 +0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> writes: > Basil L. Contovounesios writes: > >> How about "shadowed" or similar? > > The Guix package manager uses a term "superseded." I quite find this > term to be useful and nice. SGTM. Though if one wanted to be really pedantic I think they could argue that a package (either installed or uninstalled) could be superseded by another package (again regardless of whether it's installed), whereas shadowing can only occur if both packages/versions are installed, IIUC. -- Basil
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