Bill Nottingham (notting@redhat.com) said:
- blackout is for removing packages on upgrades. Upgrades no longer run
through anaconda. 2) The metadata introduced to service these plugins has not undergone a single substantive, intentional update since Fedora 10.
Therefore, I am left to assume that their functionality is vestigial and should be removed. They'd be obsolete in a DNF world anyway.
This could go to rhel7-branch as well, given that the metadata for these plugins doesn't even exist there.
Bill