garbage-collector.rpm ?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Mar 5 05:33:18 UTC 2007


On 04.03.2007 22:19, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) writes:
>>> No idea, but maybe we could ship a "garbage-collector.7-1.fc7.rpm"
>>> in the repo that simply obsoletes all packages that aren't shipped
>>> anymore and don't get obsoleted by other packages.
>> And what happens if the package is brought out of orphanship?  People have 
>> unnecessarily removed the software, and we'll have to continually 
>> update/rebuild this psuedo package over and over again.
> Should not be needed when you use versioned Obsoletes:

+1

CU
thl




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