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

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:19:21 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Monday 12 March 2007 12:00:25 Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > An early warning
> 
> Warnings are fine.  Perhaps pup/pirut can list the packages with no match in 
> any configured repo with RED and do some sort of popup about how these 
> packages will not get any updates.  Forcibly removing the packages without 
> user concent is bad.

Is it even possible to "forcibly remove a package" in all cases? What is
when a 3rd party package requires the orphan? There would be broken deps
in the transaction test, and the upgrade to the garbage-collector pkg
would fail until the 3rd party repo adapts the orphan and updates it.

In a similar way, not removing orphans results in brokens deps, too.

Are mandatory "release notes", which contain a list of orphans and hints
on how to clean up a system prior to a dist-upgrade, the way to go?