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<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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<I>Fri Jan 6 20:14:27 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 6 January 2012 18:40, Johnny A. Solbu <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">cooker at solbu.net</A>> wrote:
>><i> > The system has to be intelligent enough to know what is or is not an orphan.
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</I>>><i> It is.
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</I>><i> We claim that it is not.
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</I>>><i> orphan packages are packages that were never directly requested/installed;
</I>>><i> they're packages that got installed because they were requested or suggested
</I>>><i> by other packages that were explicitely choosed.
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</I>><i> Then why does it offer to remove packages that will Break the system, even if the package was never manually requested?
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</I>><i> I have experienced this my self, many years ago.
</I>><i> 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.
</I>><i> One of the packages i tested, and uninstalled, also wanted to uninstall _All_ of KDE in teh process, claming KDE was no longer required.
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You understand there was NO ORPHAN SUPPORT back at this time, don't you?
This is totally off topic...
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