Remove retired packages

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 24.1.2013 14:18, Michael Schwendt napsal(a):
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:13:09 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>
>> Dne 23.1.2013 21:04, Bruno Wolff III napsal(a):
>>> One possiblity here would be to create a special package that
>>> obsoletes all of the dropped packages from the last release (or two
>>> depending on how far back you want to yum update from).
>> Actually, this is cool idea IMO. Why this package does not exist yet?
>> Rel-engs has to have list of blocked packages already, so it should be
>> easy to convert it into .spec.
> 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.
>

Thank you for pointing it out. Was not aware of it.


Vít