On Sun, 2019-06-02 at 21:35 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Perhaps related, on an upgraded Fedora 30 system I see > ghostscript-fonts-5.50-37.fc27.noarch, which does not appear on any > clean installed systems, and also can't be installed (Error: Unable to > find a match ). That tells me it's been dropped or is obsolete, so is > it normal for such packages to persist through upgrades?
Sure, very common. Packages are frequently retired and not formally obsoleted by anything else: in this case, if you have them installed, they'll stay installed until some dependency issue crops up and you have to remove them manually (or use --allowerasing) to clear it up. Some people don't see any problem with this, personally it drives me crazy and I wish it were policy that *every* retired package must be obsoleted. But it isn't. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
