From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
Cc: 34390@debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: bug#34390: package.el says "Obsolete" when it means "No Longer Used"
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 17:25:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eeajioz.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eeap5gm.fsf@posteo.net> (Brett Gilio's message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:15:05 -0600")
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 The Guix package manager uses a term "superseded."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superseded by another package (again regardless of whether it's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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-08 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 16:49 bug#34390: package.el says "Obsolete" when it means "No Longer Used" Phillip Lord
2019-02-08 17:10 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-02-08 17:15 ` Brett Gilio
2019-02-08 17:25 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-02-08 17:16 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 17:42 ` brettg
2019-02-08 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-08 23:50 ` Brett Gilio
2019-10-23 16:45 ` Stefan Kangas
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