xorg-x11-base-utils conflicts with xorg-x11-base-fonts
Charles R. Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Oct 1 12:51:37 UTC 2004
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:33:09AM -0400, TGS wrote:
> just what does the --obsolete option do? Looks to me from the man page, that
> it removes old packages that are not needed. But in running yum, lots of
> packages come up. How does it know what is obsolete? Does it check against
> the current package list from the repository that you are updating from? If
> so are packages that are installed outside the yum process considered
> obsolete?
A package mentions Obsoletes: foo when it intends to replace it.
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