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      However, we also
    copy the name of the feature in a file specially dedicated for that
    purpose, .obsolete_features_used or whatever.

Users are unlikely to notice that this file exists.  With that name,
they won't even see it in directory listings.  Unless you can design
something to call their attention to it strongly, it may as well not
exist.