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

Fri Jan 6 16:27:47 CET 2012

On 6 January 2012 16:13, 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.
+
+You'll still break minimal install + manual choices.
+Those've to be fixed
+