Jeff Spaleta wrote:
obsoleting does more than notify.. it will have an affect on the
install package set. Thats not what is need at all. people need to be
informed of expiration so they can make informed choices... not have
removals of expired packages removed by obsoleting magic. You only
make matters worse by expanding the use of obsoleting to include this
sort of situation... people will just learn to disable obsoleting to
avoid applications evaporating from the system.
What about adding metadata to the repos that describe packages that have
been abandond. Then you could do a yum list abandond ( or the like ) to
see what packages have become old/stale/abandond.
Though I just wonder how that would work if say core abandond a package,
but freshrpms picked it up. Hmmm.....
Something to think about.
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