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

Fri Jan 6 19:31:13 CET 2012

Am 06.01.2012 17:55, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
+> '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
+>
+>
+Interesting, now i rememeber you mentioned this already a few times.
+Will also add it to said wiki page.
+
+
+Unrelated, could anyone please comment on how rpm-find-leaves
+aka urpmi_rpm-find-leaves fits into the picture?
+