garbage-collector.rpm ? (Was: Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Matthew Miller schrieb:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:10:33PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.
>> This would improve the "yum update fc6 -> f7" scenario a lot and
>> shouldn't be to hard to realize.
> What about implementing it as a yum plugin instead? The plugin could key off
> of the old and versions of fedora-release and act accordingly.

Hmm. Yes, maybe that could work, too.

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