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Re: Should Obsoletes: become persistent?

From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>
Date: Wed 06 May 2009 - 20:24:36 CEST
Message-id: <967EDF08-CED3-41BB-B33C-B5AD3432332C@mac.com>

On May 6, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

> 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...
>

w00t! An opinion ;-)

Thank you! todo++

73 de Jeff
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