Posting Jeff's +1 Insightful back to the list I inadvetently hijacked the topic from. :) > On 11/1/07, Jon Ciesla <limb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Agreed. I wouldn't want to pull something off someone's system just >> because Fedora stopped carrying it, if the user finds it useful. In the >> case of an abi dep, like rhnlib and python, yum sees that the upgrade >> will >> break rhnlib, so won't do it with rhnlib there, which is The Right Thing >> To Do. Maybe we just leave all as it is, and add a list of dead >> packages >> to the release notes for each release, so you know what to pull >> beforehand >> if you want. > > We need to carry around information as to what the Fedora "repository" > has stopped carrying as an optional repository metadata. Once we do > that, we can teach clientside tools to parse such repository level > data and then local admins can decide how to deal with packages which > are no longer being provided. > > We could use this sort of metadata to inform users about orphaned as > well as deprecated packages on a repository by repository basis. > > -jef > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
