On 11. 05. 20 9:43, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
The idea solution IMHO would be to allow erasing only the packages that do not belong to a distupgrade repository. Possibly to have that option only for the Fedora repos, so packages installed from a thrid-party would not get erased.
I don't think that is a good solution either. The problem is that one guy's leftover package is part of another gal's important application stack.
Currently, we manually obsolete all the dropped packages that "are problematic during upgrades". The solution I proposed does the same, sans human heuristics based on incomplete data.
I don't agree that manually asking the user to specify the list of packages to autoremove is better UX. The user is prompted with a transaction summary. If they see part of their important application stack going away, they need to abort and figure out what to do. There is no "simply not remove this" option during upgrade.