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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 6 January 2012 16:13, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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...
>>>>
>>>> Yes, right, I'd not remove such packages manually - they were marked
>>>> as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim.
>>>
>>> To make it clear - my claim is that the orphan function marked
>>> packages as orphans which are needed and which I'd never remove
>>> manually. If you have a list of 100 "orphans" it is next to impossible
>>> for a normal user to sit down and check each and every package if it
>>> is really an orphan (orphan in the sense of "not needed").
>>
>> I never say you manually removed them.
>> Again, if packages break after urpme --auto-orphans, they can break
>> after manually removing packages, thus the issue is that those
>> packages lacks requires on needed components.
>
> Ah, I see your reasoning, of course, if the packager forgot to name
> the requires then urpmi declares them as orphans. But then, to be
> safe, you have to forget about auto-orphans altogether because you can
> not be sure that all packagers did their homework.

You'll still break minimal install + manual choices.
Those've to be fixed