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

[Sander Lepik]

06.01.2012 21:06, Dale Huckeby kirjutas:
>
> Evidently once I've installed package A which requests X, sometimes packages
> F, L, and T might subsequently get installed which also need X *and presumably
> would have requested it had it not already been installed*.  But when I uninstall
> A it orphans X because A is the only package that *requested* it.  When F, L,
> and T are installed can't all the packages they *would have requested* be marked
> whether or not they're already installed?  That way a package would be orphaned
> only when the last package that needs it is uninstalled?  Or am I missing
> something?
This is already so. See example: http://pastebin.com/AMj87QiV - after first urpme 
libplasmaweather4 should be marked as orphan but it's not as it's still required by other 
package.

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Sander