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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .</H1>
    <B>Shlomi Fish</B> 
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<PRE>On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:43:21 +0100
Robert Fox &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">list at foxconsult.net</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:32 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Robert Fox &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">list at foxconsult.net</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; &quot;orphans&quot; - but I believe some of these packages are needed (like hal or
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; basesystem-minimal) -
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; How do I clear out the orphans - like reset the logic behind it so the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; correct packages will be orphaned?  Or is a fresh install in order??
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; What I normally do is invoke urpmi with the list of packages that I want in
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; which case it says that it will mark them as manually installed and they won't
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; be auto-orphaned.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Thanks Shlomi - I was thinking that - but to know the packages I want
</I>&gt;<i> vs. the packages that are needed for the basic system . . . I don't know
</I>&gt;<i> them all by heart - like hal - is it needed still?  
</I>&gt;<i> 
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You're welcome.

I don't have the &quot;hal&quot; package installed on either of my systems (both x86-64)
and most everything seems fine (except from various minor bugs in various
higher-level packages that I'm sure have nothing to do with &quot;hal&quot;.).

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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