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

Fri Jan 6 17:55:42 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 06/01/12 10:16 did gyre and gimble:
+> After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested
+> "orphans" - but I believe some of these packages are needed (like hal or
+> basesystem-minimal) -
+> 
+> How do I clear out the orphans - like reset the logic behind it so the
+> correct packages will be orphaned?  Or is a fresh install in order??
+
+FWIW, as I see some people not liking this feature, personally I don't
+use --auto-orphans, but instead use "urpmq --not-available" to find
+packages I have installed that are no longer provided by the
+repositories. This will typically include old and unneeded library
+majors etc. that accumulate after a while.
+
+This list is much clearer in what it actually outputs and is basically
+the same as the yum orphan list command (I forget what the command
+actually is, but it's what inspired me to write the first version which
+in turn was vastly improved by a native implementation by (IIRC) Pascal
+Terjan :))
+
+Col
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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