Remove retired packages

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 14:18:25 +0100,
   Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:13:09 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>
>It has been suggested, discussed and rejected many years ago. Here's
>one thread from 2007,
>
>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2007-March/msg00089.html
>
>and I remember it has been a topic before for early FESCO, but probably
>on IRC or the closed list. As one can see, we referred to it with the
>term "garbage collection" for packages. That's why I managed to find this
>thread, too.

The above thread was sort of neutral. I think the downsides of making it 
harder to keep some dropped packages is out weighed by making yum upgrades 
work smoother.