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

Fri Jan 6 13:16:59 CET 2012

2012/1/6 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> 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.
+
+To make it clear - my claim is that the orphan function marked
+packages as orphans which are needed and which I'd never remove
+manually. If you have a list of 100 "orphans" it is next to impossible
+for a normal user to sit down and check each and every package if it
+is really an orphan (orphan in the sense of "not needed").
+
+-- 
+wobo
+