[illumos-Developer] webrev for 1125: manifest hygiene

[Garrett D'Amore]

Oh I misunderstood.  Ok, nuke the old names then.

Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:09, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
>> I think you need at least one package to deliver the group membership.
>
>It's replaced with a transform, so nobody can get it wrong again.
>They all deliver the same membership, unavoidably.
>
>> I am also thinking you should not remove the perl 584 manifests, but merely
>> obsolete them.
>
>If you recall, the hack we came up with for perl 5.8.4 was to remove
>the packages but not obsolete them, so people could keep them
>installed but we could delete it.  The same has to apply for the old
>package names.
>
>Obsoleting the old name without the new names is a bad idea.
>
>-- Rich