[Mageia-dev] Orphans - those poor orphans . . .
Shlomi Fish
shlomif at shlomifish.org
Fri Jan 6 11:32:16 CET 2012
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100
Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
> After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested
> "orphans" - but I believe some of these packages are needed (like hal or
> basesystem-minimal) -
>
> How do I clear out the orphans - like reset the logic behind it so the
> correct packages will be orphaned? Or is a fresh install in order??
>
What I normally do is invoke urpmi with the list of packages that I want in
which case it says that it will mark them as manually installed and they won't
be auto-orphaned.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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