25.12.2012 20:41, Florian Hubold kirjutas: > Hello, > > this should not be about complaints, only some technical questions. > How is task-obsolete supposed to work as a package, i.e. what is the mechanism > used to pull it in, and then remove it again? It is required by nothing else, > so i guess > this is either pulled by urpmi/perl-urpm/rpmdrake itself. > Can sombody enlighten me about this? AFAIK task-obsolete is pulled in by rpmsrate. > And the next step would be the question for the proper way how to disable > this mechanism as an enduser. As root, run this command:
echo task-obsolete >> /etc/urpmi/skip.list This will add task-obsolete into the skip list and you can use obsoleted software. -- Sander
