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See example: <A HREF="http://pastebin.com/AMj87QiV">http://pastebin.com/AMj87QiV</A> - after +</I>>>>><i> first +</I>>>>><i> urpme libplasmaweather4 should be marked as orphan but it's not as it's +</I>>>>><i> still required by other package. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> -- +</I>>>>><i> Sander +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> It seems to me, auto-orphans gives more headaches than benefits. Why are +</I>>>><i> we +</I>>>><i> clinching to it? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Because I and meany other people finding it useful never faced any +</I>>><i> problems on their machine with it. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> The only problems I can remember are: +</I>>><i> - people wanted to remove some things required by task-kde, which +</I>>><i> implied removing task-kde, and then all of kde was orphan. I think +</I>>><i> many things were move to suggests since +</I>>><i> - some kind of install was installing packages requested by nothing +</I>>><i> and they were not marked as requested so they were listed as orphans, +</I>>><i> but this was fixed long ago +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> I recently installed Okular then i removed xpdf and then used auto-orphans : +</I>><i> I immedialtely lost any possibility to use wifi... +</I> +What would be useful would be to know what package was removed, and +how it had been installed +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011122.html">[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . . +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011038.html">[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . . +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11128">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11128">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11128">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11128">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |