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

Sat Jan 7 11:14:12 CET 2012

Le 06/01/2012 17:55, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> '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
+>
+>
+The problem is not 'I like it'/'I don't like it', the problem is that 
+this feature caused sometimes the loss of very important packages making 
+the system unusable and leading to a necessary reinstallation.
+
+
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