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

Tue Aug 14 07:48:14 CEST 2012

* 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 If a system is obsolete with the new distribution and known to break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.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
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