Remove retired packages

[Michael scherer]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:13:09PM +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.

For the record, mageia does it, but not everybody is ok with that.

So you could talk to them to see if they have some interesting feedback on the topic.

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Michael Scherer