Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:18:32 +0100
> bugs michael gmx net (Michael Schwendt) wrote:
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> > The missing obsoletes is a fundamental problem, not specific to
> > Extras. There is no automatic garbage collection during upgrades.

Do we know of any distribution that handles it better? What does say 
Debian due when packages are orphaned?

> So, I could: 
>
> - Do nothing. This means people who have bmp-xosd installed will see a
> broken dep and have to manually 'rpm -e bmp-xosd' to get back on track. 
> Not nice to make end users have to do that. ;( 
>
> - Add a 'obsoletes' to the main xosd package. This would help end
> users, but this package doesn't really provide bmp-xosd anymore, so
> should it have to obsolete it? I guess this is cleaner.. 
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to fix this?

Please dont leave broken deps. Obsolete it if there isnt a better way.

Rahul