Jeff Johnson wrote:
 
> The proper "fix" is to make Obsoletes: persistent like Conflicts:,
> with a semantic that any Obsolete:'d package added to a transaction
> is automagically discarded (with or without warning with all the usual
> enablers/disablers for the warm/fuzzy bikeshed discusssions).
> 
> Should I make Obsoletes: in RPM persistent?

My vote would be yes, because I fell in that hole once...