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[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .

+ Wolfgang Bornath + molch.b at googlemail.com +
+ Fri Jan 6 13:12:43 CET 2012 +

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2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+> On 6 January 2012 12:27, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>> This is a well known issue.
+>> To clear out the list you need a deep knowledge of the system to
+>> determine which packages are really not needed anymore.
+>>
+>> Lately  this --auto-orphans line shreddered my whole system on a fresh
+>> install after the first update, several system services could not
+>> start at next reboot, applications did not run, etc. One of the very
+>> few times I had to re-install because of a bug. Call me newbie or
+>> pussy but until this is not a secure function I will never touch it
+>> again.
+>
+> This is just a bogus claim:
+> If some apps break after removing orphan packages, they'll break too
+> after manually removing such packages, meaning they lack some
+> requires...
+
+Yes, right, I'd not remove such packages manually - they were marked
+as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim.
+
+-- 
+wobo
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