Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Fedora-Retired-Packages

[Kamil Paral]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:30 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 3:48 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  >
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora-Retired-Packages
>  >
>  > == Summary ==
>  > All retired packages are obsoleted by `fedora-retired-packages`.
>  >
>
>  This whole process is unnecessary. You're basically asking for
>  autoremove behavior to occur as part of a distro-sync action. 

Autoremove only removes leaf packages which were installed as dependencies
of user-installed packages, but are no longer required. So it is a
completely different thing and is not applicable in this case.