Patrice Dumas (pertusus(a)free.fr) said:
> If a package's entire function has been subsumed by another
package, there's
> no point in going through an orphan cycle.
There can be different packages providing the same functionality in
fedora. The criterion is the presence of a maintainer (and passing the
review).
Not always. For example, we have obsoletes in perl for modules that moved
into the base perl distribution. There's no reason to go through an orphan
cycle for that. Similarly, if the entirety of gnome-volume-manager is poking
interfaces that no longer exist, there's really no point to orphaning it.
Bill