[Yum] Re: upgrade and update

[Jim Wildman]

I like the idea of yum telling me there is another path (ie, a package
which obsoletes another.  I can always ignore the output.  Knowledge is
power....

On 9 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> Something I've considered doing is having obsoletes automatically
> considered and simply tell the users that they have packages installed
> that are being obsoleted by an available package. so when you run a yum
> update - it looks through and says - "oh, look at that, you've got a
> package installed (foo) that is due to be obsoleted (bar), you should
> think  about that."
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> The other problem I have with obsoletes by default is the possibility
> for two packages to obsolete the same package. Which one wins?
> 
> foo is installed
> bar obsoletes foo
> baz obsoletes foo
> 
> Do you install them both? That seems wrong somehow.
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