On Thursday, 20 December 2018 at 08:15, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 12/19/18 4:31 PM, John Harris wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 5:10:21 AM EST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > gnupg2 is now obsoleting gnupg and the previous gpg command is not > > > available. [...] > > I can't believe this was done without using the alternatives system! > > Alternatives is not a solution, it's trouble looking for opportunities to > make more. > > There are a handful of cases where it is appropriate, but using alternatives > means retaining support for all of the variants throughout the distro. > That's pretty much the opposite direction from obsoleting, which is the > purpose here.
Moreover, gpg2 is not option-compatible with gpg1, so using alternatives is not a good idea for this reason, either. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
