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<PRE>><i> On 6 January 2012 13:16, Wolfgang Bornath <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>>>><i> This is just a bogus claim:
</I>>>>><i> If some apps break after removing orphan packages, they'll break too
</I>>>>><i> after manually removing such packages, meaning they lack some
</I>>>>><i> requires...
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</I>>>><i> Yes, right, I'd not remove such packages manually - they were marked
</I>>>><i> as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim.
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</I>>><i> To make it clear - my claim is that the orphan function marked
</I>>><i> packages as orphans which are needed and which I'd never remove
</I>>><i> manually. If you have a list of 100 "orphans" it is next to impossible
</I>>><i> for a normal user to sit down and check each and every package if it
</I>>><i> is really an orphan (orphan in the sense of "not needed").
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</I>><i> I never say you manually removed them.
</I>><i> Again, if packages break after urpme --auto-orphans, they can break
</I>><i> after manually removing packages, thus the issue is that those
</I>><i> packages lacks requires on needed components.
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I don't think that's true. Removing a package will not remove other
packages that it depends on, so nothing should break if you remove it.
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