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

Fri Jan 6 18:40:25 CET 2012

On Friday 06 January 2012 16:13, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> > The system has to be intelligent enough to know what is or is not an orphan.
+> 
+> It is.
+
+We claim that it is not.
+
+> orphan packages are packages that were never directly requested/installed;
+> they're packages that got installed because they were requested or suggested
+> by other packages that were explicitely choosed.
+
+Then why does it offer to remove packages that will Break the system, even if the package was never manually requested?
+
+I have experienced this my self, many years ago.
+Back when I had MDK 9.1 I was looking for an id3 tag editor, for mp3 tagging. I installed one, tested it uninstalled it and tested a new one untill I found one that suited my needs.
+One of the packages i tested, and uninstalled, also wanted to uninstall _All_ of KDE in teh process, claming KDE was no longer required.
+
+Obviously this bug have never really been looked at, or it would have been fixed long ago. Most likely this has not been reported as a bug, or the bug was not correctly resolved, possibly due to inadequate descrition of the bug.
+
+
+The end result is that many of us handle this feature like the plague; very carefully to avoid destruction.
+Many never use this feature, fearing it could destroy the system, prompting a reinstall.
+
+-- 
+Johnny A. Solbu
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