Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > 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.
The same argument could be used to support not changing what 'gpg' points to (gpg v1 vs v2) as well. -- Rex _______________________________________________ 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
