On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 21:29:18 +0930, Tim wrote: > Bruno Wolff III: > > An update isn't going to do that. If you were doing an erase or > > distro-sync then that would be a worry. > > You'd presume so. But updates can remove some obsoleted packages. And > what if you were one of the rare cases where other things were dependent > on what got removed, and things snowballed?
No, that doesn't happen. Only explicitly obsoleted packages get removed. If anything depends on them, there will be broken dependencies, and Yum will refuse to remove the obsolete packages. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.00 0.01 0.05 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
