On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:13:09 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 23.1.2013 21:04, Bruno Wolff III napsal(a): > > One possiblity here would be to create a special package that > > obsoletes all of the dropped packages from the last release (or two > > depending on how far back you want to yum update from). > > Actually, this is cool idea IMO. Why this package does not exist yet? > Rel-engs has to have list of blocked packages already, so it should be > easy to convert it into .spec.
It has been suggested, discussed and rejected many years ago. Here's one thread from 2007, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2007-March/msg00089.html and I remember it has been a topic before for early FESCO, but probably on IRC or the closed list. As one can see, we referred to it with the term "garbage collection" for packages. That's why I managed to find this thread, too. -- Fedora release 19 (Rawhide) - Linux 3.8.0-0.rc4.git1.1.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.03 0.04 0.05 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
