On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 19:41 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Yes - this is rather important, because our user facing docs (on the
> wiki) for preupgrade recommend removing all packages identified with
> package-cleanup --orphans. A naive user could literally wipe out their
> system by blindly doing that. That's my main concern - we should not
> be leaving landmines for users.
Oooh, ooh! (*Raises hand, jumps in chair*.) yum-protect-packages plugin!
protect packages is no-more!
we've merged the functionality into core yum to keep people from
shooting themselves in the foot
-sv