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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/1/6 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
> 2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
>> On 6 January 2012 12:27, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> This is a well known issue.
>>> To clear out the list you need a deep knowledge of the system to
>>> determine which packages are really not needed anymore.
>>>
>>> Lately  this --auto-orphans line shreddered my whole system on a fresh
>>> install after the first update, several system services could not
>>> start at next reboot, applications did not run, etc. One of the very
>>> few times I had to re-install because of a bug. Call me newbie or
>>> pussy but until this is not a secure function I will never touch it
>>> again.
>>
>> This is just a bogus claim:
>> If some apps break after removing orphan packages, they'll break too
>> after manually removing such packages, meaning they lack some
>> requires...
>
> Yes, right, I'd not remove such packages manually - they were marked
> as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim.

To make it clear - my claim is that the orphan function marked
packages as orphans which are needed and which I'd never remove
manually. If you have a list of 100 "orphans" it is next to impossible
for a normal user to sit down and check each and every package if it
is really an orphan (orphan in the sense of "not needed").

-- 
wobo