[Mageia-dev] Orphans after /usr move

Tue Jul 24 18:31:54 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 24/07/12 17:04 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 24/07/12 15:09, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> '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.
+> 
+> I hadn't done today's update at that point.  I have now, and the drak*
+> packages are no longer listed.  I confess I  haven't been diligent in
+> cleaning out orphans in the past, so they could have been there some
+> time.  Most of the listed packages seem to be libboost_* - are these
+> old ones?  If there's any doubt I'll just leave things.
+
+Yeah there will typically be lots of library packages that are no longer
+needed. The boost ones show up as they have lots of sub-packages.
+
+I don't do it that often myself either, so there does tend to be an
+accumulation over time on my system too :)
+
+Col
+
+
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