Description of problem: user preupgrades their box they boot up into the new release a bunch of disk space is sucked up in /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade that space will not be cleaned up by commands like 'yum clean packages' b/c that repo is not enabled anywhere. it would great if anaconda could nuke that cache if the install completes successfully.
Handled in git
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I think this should be a choice presented to the user. If I want to upgrade many other installs, I can then use the existing packages instead of having to download them. In that case, I am responsible for cleanup but I have chosen to be.