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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages |
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Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:10:45 -0500 |
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"Deprecated" is neither weaker nor stronger than "obsolete". Rather,
they are different in quality.
"Obsolete" means "This was useful before, but not now, since the
context has changed." "Deprecated" means "We disapprove of this."
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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