[Mageia-dev] Orphans after /usr move

Tue Jul 24 16:09:11 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 24/07/12 14:42 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 24/07/12 10:20, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 24/07/12 09:42 did gyre and 
+>> gimble:
+>>> 46 packages are reported as being orphans after the move, but
+>>> many of those are libraries and video drivers, of which the intel
+>>> one is, I think, the one I use.  OTOH,
+>>> /usr/sbin/remove-unused-packages finds only a wacom driver to be
+>>> removed.
+>>>
+>>> Advice?
+> 
+>> No idea. The move shouldn't have affected this list at all.
+> 
+>> /me doesn't use this feature anyway. I always use "urpmq 
+>> --not-available" to remove old packages as I find the built in 
+>> orphan tracking to not really be all that useful for me.
+> 
+> That gives an even longer list, including harddrake and drakxtools.  I
+> doubt if leaving them is going to cause any problems, so I'm going to
+> ignore them.
+
+--not-available should never show e.g. drakxtools or similar unless your
+system is not fully up-to-date.
+
+It basically compares your installed versions with the latest version
+available via your media.
+
+Typically it would list old libraries we no longer ship (e.g. libudev0
+for example) and which you can now safely remove.
+
+Col
+
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