* Petteri R?ty <betelgeuse@g.o> schrieb:
> dev-java/saxon-bin is going to be removed from the tree as soon as the
> from sources version dev-java/saxon gets marked stable on arches that
> have saxon-bin stable. I will add a package move and a revision bump so
> that user will have a smooth upgrade. I will also adjust app-text/jing
> to work with the from sources version.

Are such things also announced separately on some user list ?
The problem I see: from the view of an common user (who's not 
reading the dev lists) packages they're using suddenly disappear. 
They don't have time to handle it properly.

There should be an additional flagging (ie. scheduled for masking
or removal), maybe such flags could be put into an separate
database (ie. some textfile available via web or rsync).

An tool could check if the current system has some of those
scheduled packages installed.


cu
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