'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 07/08/12 12:54 did gyre and gimble: > The package manager (urpmi) can also notify people because it sees which > installed packages are not in the configured repositories. Zypper even > removes such packages automatically. This would give users the choice to > keep an 'obsolete' package installed, while that choice doesn't exist > with task-obsolete.
urpmq --not-available? But maybe run automatically at the end of an auto-update/select in much the same way as the current "orphans" stuff is handled? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
