yum annoyances

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>If removing packages seems a little to drastic, you can set up the
>groups in Conary one more way.  You can create group-dist-deprecated,
>and add all of the obsoleted packages to that group with the default
>flag set to False.  Users that have an affinity to old software can
>install group-dist-deprecated.  When you remove something from the
>distribution (which is group-dist in our case), you would add it to
>group-dist-deprecated.  If the user had group-dist-deprecated
>installed, the package won't be removed from the system.
>  
>
There is already a yum group for providing compatibility libs for legacy 
software. This solution looks is consistent with the usage of yum group 
in favor of virtual packages in Fedora. It is also more flexible. 

regards
Rahul