garbage-collector.rpm ?

[Enrico Scholz]

jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) writes:

>> 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.

Should not be needed when you use versioned Obsoletes:



Enrico
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