On 2016-11-18 09:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
I guess one tweak I would be okay with would be a sort of weaker-Obsoletes mechanism: some kind of field that provides a hint to package managers that by default it's OK for the packaging system to remove a given package if it's blocking another transaction. Then we could tag all retired packages with that, and people who really want to keep ancient unmaintained packages around could have a flip to switch that says 'don't do that'. Of course, it's one more conditional for some poor sap to maintain.
In fact, now I think about it for two seconds, the 'fedora-obsolete-packages' package can fulfill this role perfectly well. If we make it a policy that all packages which are retired but not specifically obsoleted by anything else be listed as Obsoletes: in that package, then you can decide whether such packages are removed on update/upgrade simply by whether you have that package installed or not.
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