Re: remove-retired-packages

> But still I'd rather have this as part of distribution - a package > similar to fedora-obsolete-packages which would allow me to remove all > retired packages simply by installing it. > Oh there is already this proposal - > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora-Retired-Packages And in the followup discussion this was rejected as a bad idea. Example: one of the retired packages is "nspr" but if you try to remove it, then half of your system is gone. :) Therefore it is a good idea to allow user to "cherry-pick" packages which should be kept on machine despite being retired.

Generally, I think we should instead strive to have configurable bahavior of dnf system-upgrade: option 1) broken deps block upgrades, user go figure (status quo) option 2) broken deps of packages not part of distupgrade repository behave like --allowerasing option 3) all packages not part of distupgrade repository are removed on distro boundary upgrade option 4) --allowerasing (already possible) With alterations for 2/3: suboption a) this affects all packages suboption b) this affects only packages installed from "system repos" (Suboption b) can be achieved trough a .repo file configuration option.) Then we can have a discussion about the best default for Fedora. Such solution obviously requires somebody to design it, code it, test it, support it and maintain it. I cannot speak for the software management team, but I guess they would have reasons not to do that (such as capacity reasons).