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

Sat Jan 7 11:37:16 CET 2012

07.01.2012 12:18, andre999 kirjutas:
+> It is not exactly the same thing, but in more than one occasion when I installed packages 
+> with similar functions at the same time, to compare them, say A, B, and C, and later 
+> uninstalled B and C, I have found A to be declared an orphan.  Only to find that it had 
+> been required by one of the others.
+> (I often prefer command-line packages.  It is simple to add them to the menu if I want.  
+> And I have often enough made such comparisons.  To be fair, I haven't done much of that 
+> since installing Mageia, when it first became available.)
+So what you say is:
+
+urpmi A
+urpmi B
+urpmi C
+
+urpme B C
+
+A would be orphan? Really?! Show me. I want an example!
+> The auto-orphans option and how it currently works is based on the assumption that if 
+> package A is installed as a requirement of package B, that on uninstalling B, one will 
+> want to uninstall A.  That to me is a false premise.
+You do get the point of orphans?! System has no AI. It only knows what it has to know. If 
+you still want A you would just run urpmi A and urpme --auto-orphans won't remove it! Simple 
+as that.
+
+--
+Sander
+
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