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

Sun Jan 8 17:04:54 CET 2012

Le 08/01/2012 16:59, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
+> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 16:48, Thomas Spuhler<thomas at btspuhler.com>  wrote:
+>> On Friday, January 06, 2012 12:57:39 PM Sander Lepik wrote:
+>>> 06.01.2012 21:06, Dale Huckeby kirjutas:
+>>>> Evidently once I've installed package A which requests X, sometimes
+>>>> packages F, L, and T might subsequently get installed which also need X
+>>>> *and presumably would have requested it had it not already been
+>>>> installed*.  But when I uninstall A it orphans X because A is the only
+>>>> package that *requested* it.  When F, L, and T are installed can't all
+>>>> the packages they *would have requested* be marked whether or not
+>>>> they're already installed?  That way a package would be orphaned only
+>>>> when the last package that needs it is uninstalled?  Or am I missing
+>>>> something?
+>>> This is already so. See example: http://pastebin.com/AMj87QiV - after first
+>>> urpme libplasmaweather4 should be marked as orphan but it's not as it's
+>>> still required by other package.
+>>>
+>>> --
+>>> Sander
+>> It seems to me, auto-orphans gives more headaches than benefits. Why are we
+>> clinching to it?
+> Because I and meany other people finding it useful never faced any
+> problems on their machine with it.
+>
+> The only problems I can remember are:
+> - people wanted to remove some things required by task-kde, which
+> implied removing task-kde, and then all of kde was orphan. I think
+> many things were move to suggests since
+> - some kind of install was installing packages requested by nothing
+> and they were not marked as requested so they were listed as orphans,
+> but this was fixed long ago
+>
+I recently installed Okular then i removed xpdf and then used 
+auto-orphans : I immedialtely lost any possibility to use wifi...
+
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