garbage-collector.rpm ? (Was: Re: Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2007-03-03)

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sun Mar 4 20:58:30 UTC 2007


On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:10:33 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> No idea, but maybe we could ship a "garbage-collector.7-1.fc7.rpm" in
> the repo that simply obsoletes all packages that aren't shipped anymore
> and don't get obsoleted by other packages.

And what happens if the package is brought out of orphanship?  People have 
unnecessarily removed the software, and we'll have to continually 
update/rebuild this psuedo package over and over again.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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