[Mageia-dev] Task-obsolete and non-sense obsoletes

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 07/08/12 12:54 did gyre and
gimble:
> The package manager (urpmi) can also notify people because it sees which
> installed packages are not in the configured repositories. Zypper even
> removes such packages automatically. This would give users the choice to
> keep an 'obsolete' package installed, while that choice doesn't exist
> with task-obsolete.

urpmq --not-available?

But maybe run automatically at the end of an auto-update/select in much
the same way as the current "orphans" stuff is handled?

Col

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