On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:25:30PM -0500, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:22, shawnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Why would this option be deprecated? > > > > It's only deprecated as a command line option -- there has been much > > confusion between the semantics of upgrade vs update. The functionality > > will remain, it'll just work differently (iirc, you'll just tell yum > > whether to mind the obsoletes or not. Currently, update ignores > > obsoletes, while upgrade honors them). > > To be slightly more specific, instead of doing > > yum upgrade > > you'll do > > yum update --with-obsoletes > > Possibly the exact syntax or option name will be different, but that's > the basic idea. Would someone please explain why it would be a bad thing(tm) to do yum-update --with-obsoletes all of the time?? ............Tom
