On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 6:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora-Retired-Packages > > ...snip... Please not using mechanism. Make it easy to opt out, or better yet opt-in. Probably better to just advertise `yum list extras` which has existed since at least Fedora 12. > > > If the user wants to preserve the package (e.g., because it moved to > > Copr), he simply uninstalls and protects the installation of > > fedora-retired-packages. But that will be an informed decision. > > How is this discoverable? It's already really unclear that > fedora-obsolete-packages should be excluded if you want to keep obsolete > packages. :( > Agreed. We should kill the auto destruct on this package. It makes it very confusing why something it's being removed. Or at least make it obvious in the output why things are being removed. V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ 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
