On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:53 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:00 AM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:39 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:15:39PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > This might be a bad idea. But I'm looking for better ideas than status quo. > > > > > > > > A known problem is upgraded systems get crusty over time. Maybe folks > > > > should clean install more often, yet they don't. > > > > > > > > If there's a new good idea, but it's a short term solution, the fact it'll > > > > live forever acts as a deterrent to implementing it. > > > > > > > > What if there were an autoremove for anything older than Fedora n-2, that > > > > is, keep current plus last two releases? i.e. for upgrades to Fedora 33, > > > > keep stale packages from 33, 32, and 31. > > > > > > > > Or another idea? > > > > > > Well, we already have fedora-obsolete-packages. That should handlle this > > > case no? Folks who want to have obsolete things removed can make sure to > > > have fedora-obsolete-packages installed and it should obsolete those. > > > > It's not installed by default. Should it be? > > > > fedora-obsolete-packages is a self-destructing package. It is > installed as part of your transaction to clean up packages and then > removed afterward. Gotcha. That's a useful mechanism. But it's a package automatically created based on a list of obsoleted, not based on someone who curated it with the intent of: these packages for sure should be removed. Is it either accept the automated obsoletes list, or someone has to flag these things for removal? i.e. the former is too aggressive and might break user's 3rd part programs, the latter is too much manual work and isn't maintainable? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
