Re: xorg-x11-base-utils conflicts with xorg-x11-base-fonts

["Charles R. Anderson" <cra WPI EDU>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:33:09AM -0400, TGS wrote:
> just what does the --obsolete option do? Looks to me from the man page, that
> it removes old packages that are not needed. But in running yum, lots of
> packages come up. How does it know what is obsolete? Does it check against
> the current package list from the repository that you are updating from? If
> so are packages that are installed outside the yum process considered
> obsolete?

A package mentions Obsoletes: foo when it intends to replace it.