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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 6 January 2012 18:40, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
>> > The system has to be intelligent enough to know what is or is not an orphan.
>>
>> It is.
>
> We claim that it is not.
>
>> orphan packages are packages that were never directly requested/installed;
>> they're packages that got installed because they were requested or suggested
>> by other packages that were explicitely choosed.
>
> Then why does it offer to remove packages that will Break the system, even if the package was never manually requested?
>
> I have experienced this my self, many years ago.
> Back when I had MDK 9.1 I was looking for an id3 tag editor, for mp3 tagging. I installed one, tested it uninstalled it and tested a new one untill I found one that suited my needs.
> One of the packages i tested, and uninstalled, also wanted to uninstall _All_ of KDE in teh process, claming KDE was no longer required.

You understand there was NO ORPHAN SUPPORT back at this time, don't you?
This is totally off topic...