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

Fri Jan 6 15:19:54 CET 2012

On Friday, January 06, 2012 05:16:59 AM Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 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").
++1
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
+