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[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:10, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:19:54PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, that's really complecated. 
> > 
> > 
> > I agree, that's why it's been deprecated. For the future it should be:
> > 
> > yum --obsoletes update
> > 
> > 
> > That way people can enable obsolete processing at will.
> 
> Apart from "release-foo*" (which could be put into a exclude-list;-),
> is there any other reason obsolete processing should not be done?
> I'd hope to have that enabled all the time to get newer rpms that
> obsolete old stuff.

obsolete loops

foo obsoletes bar
bar obsoletes foo

so the packages perpetually oscillate.

Or longer loops

foo obsoletes bar
baz obsoletes foo
bar obsoletes baz

-sv