[development] Have you ever laughed fate in the face?

[Mark Fredrickson]

> workflow + actions in core could be an option. Have a workflow state for
> deleted, on state change to deleted, do action delete. yet another
> option.

+10. This is the solution we should get behind. Dries has targeted
workflow+actions for next version. It's flexible. It's an API. There
are a bunch of actions out there already (and they're easy to write).
As part of "core" install profile, we could add a reasonable default
workflow (with states like "unpublished" -> "published" ->
"deleted/archived").

As to checking the "deleted" field. This can happen using
hook_sql_rewrite. Any legit query looking at nodes should be calling
this hook anyway. Also: this allows for the deletion to live in
contrib, which sounds like what people want.

-M