On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:06:45AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've just discovered that I had some old packages from 4.4 installed on > a 4.5 system. While investigating the resulting breakage, it occurred > to me that I don't seem to have an easy way to properly determine which > ports are being made obsolete by new functionality in the base system. > In such cases, I usually wish to remove the package and use the > corresponding functionality from the base system.
This is a known defect. It will be dealt with eventually, hopefully soon... I've done about everything I could get away with to avoid any kind of central database in the packages world, but at some point, I need to add a list of exceptions (e.g., you're going at some point to have a package called "quirks") that would contain this kind of information (along with complex renaming/splits of old packages). Don't hold your breath, but it's going to happen eventually...
