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bug#34390: package.el says "Obsolete" when it means "No Longer Used"


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 The Guix package manager uses a term "superseded."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superseded by another package (again regardless of whether it's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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