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

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Thierry Vignaud (thierry.vignaud at gmail.com) wrote:
> 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 If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break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....

It's already the case with Obsoletes.

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Olivier Thauvin
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