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

[Olivier Blin]

Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:

> '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?

This would also remove packages installed from third-party vendors,
there are still some proprietary RPM packages out there.

There is also this command:
urpmi_rpm-find-leaves -g

It finds unused library packages, or actually unused packages in the
System/Libraries group. But there are quite a few false-positive
results, because of packages incorrectly using System/Libraries as
group.

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Olivier Blin - blino