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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 13 August 2012 17:49, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:

> > But people will not be notified of it.
> > If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break
> > things/contain major security problems, I think having a place to put
> > the obsoletes is good.
> > But really I wouldn't expect more than 2 or 3 such packages in a release...
>
> Maybe we could change task-obsolete to conflict with obsolete packages
> instead of obsoleting them :
> - people who want to remove unsupported packages from their system
>   install task-obsolete
> - people who don't want to remove unsupported packages don't install
>   task-obsolete
>
> This will also make urpmi/rpmdrake warn before removing packages,
> instead of silently removing them.

This would also be removing all obsoleted/unsupported packages
or none of them....