Re: Stale packages in Fedora 30

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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 That tells me it's been dropped or is obsolete, so is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.
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