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

Fri Jan 6 16:13:48 CET 2012

2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+> On 6 January 2012 13:16, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>>> 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").
+>
+> I never say you manually removed them.
+> Again, if packages break after urpme --auto-orphans, they can break
+> after manually removing packages, thus the issue is that those
+> packages lacks requires on needed components.
+
+Ah, I see your reasoning, of course, if the packager forgot to name
+the requires then urpmi declares them as orphans. But then, to be
+safe, you have to forget about auto-orphans altogether because you can
+not be sure that all packagers did their homework.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+