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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 6 January 2012 12:27, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This is a well known issue.
> To clear out the list you need a deep knowledge of the system to
> determine which packages are really not needed anymore.
>
> Lately  this --auto-orphans line shreddered my whole system on a fresh
> install after the first update, several system services could not
> start at next reboot, applications did not run, etc. One of the very
> few times I had to re-install because of a bug. Call me newbie or
> pussy but until this is not a secure function I will never touch it
> again.

This is just a bogus claim:
If some apps break after removing orphan packages, they'll break too
after manually removing such packages, meaning they lack some
requires...