up2date and yum never remove packages unless they are
explicitly obsoleted by something else, AFAIK.
Then a working-but-ugly solution would be to have some kind of meta-package
which would just obsolete the problematic packages... Is there a more
elegant way of dealing with such a situation ?
Aurélien
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