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

Tue Dec 25 19:41:48 CET 2012

Hello,
+
+this should not be about complaints, only some technical questions.
+How is task-obsolete supposed to work as a package, i.e. what is the mechanism
+used to pull it in, and then remove it again? It is required by nothing else,
+so i guess
+this is either pulled by urpmi/perl-urpm/rpmdrake itself.
+Can sombody enlighten me about this?
+
+
+And the next step would be the question for the proper way how to disable
+this mechanism as an enduser. For a valid scenario, here's an example:
+
+Say a user wants to use k9copy, as that's his favorite frontend. Currently
+he can't, even if he removes task-obsolete, it will get reinstalled during
+next update, removing k9copy in thee process, at least he told me so.
+
+Unfortunately i've never seen it in action, so can't give more details here.
+But in above scenario, how can a user selectively disable task-obsolete
+mechanism for this one package without touching task-obsoletes package,
+removing the obsoletes tag and without disabling obsoletes mechanism altogether?
+
+And on a further question: Shouldn't this be only run during distro upgrades,
+but not within the lifecycle of an released distro?
+
+Kind regards (and a merry christmas :) )
+
+Florian
+