On 2016-11-18 09:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
I guess one tweak I would be okay with would be a sort of
weaker-Obsoletes mechanism: some kind of field that provides a hint to
package managers that by default it's OK for the packaging system to
remove a given package if it's blocking another transaction. Then we
could tag all retired packages with that, and people who really want to
keep ancient unmaintained packages around could have a flip to switch
that says 'don't do that'. Of course, it's one more conditional for some
poor sap to maintain.
In fact, now I think about it for two seconds, the
'fedora-obsolete-packages' package can fulfill this role perfectly well.
If we make it a policy that all packages which are retired but not
specifically obsoleted by anything else be listed as Obsoletes: in that
package, then you can decide whether such packages are removed on
update/upgrade simply by whether you have that package installed or not.
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