[Mageia-dev] task-obsolete - questions about implementation details and how to disable it

[AL13N]

Op donderdag 27 december 2012 00:02:28 schreef Florian Hubold:
> Am 25.12.2012 22:41, schrieb Charles A Edwards:
> > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:24:56 +0100
> > 
> > Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> >>> As root, run this command:
> >>> 
> >>> echo task-obsolete >> /etc/urpmi/skip.list
> >>> 
> >>> This will add task-obsolete into the skip list and you can use
> >>> obsoleted software.
> >> 
> >> even easier:
> >> rpm -e task-obsolete
> > 
> > Needed, but if you do not add it to the skip.list it will be
> > re-installed the next time you update.
> > 
> >     Charles
> 
> OK, so there is currently only the option to have all packages
> obsoleted or to have the mechanism completely disabled?
> No proper way to only have selected obsoletes?
> 
> @Thierry, do you have any other clever solution here? Or some
> workaround or something similar?

i just don't think there's any reasonable use case for this. (if you're not a 
developer), meaning you can maintain it yourself.