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

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 07/01/2012 11:14, ptyxs a écrit :
> Le 06/01/2012 17:55, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>> 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 06/01/12 10:16 did gyre and gimble:
>>> 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??
>> FWIW, as I see some people not liking this feature, personally I don't
>> use --auto-orphans, but instead use "urpmq --not-available" to find
>> packages I have installed that are no longer provided by the
>> repositories. This will typically include old and unneeded library
>> majors etc. that accumulate after a while.
>>
>> This list is much clearer in what it actually outputs and is basically
>> the same as the yum orphan list command (I forget what the command
>> actually is, but it's what inspired me to write the first version which
>> in turn was vastly improved by a native implementation by (IIRC) Pascal
>> Terjan :))
>>
>> Col
>>
>>
> The problem is not 'I like it'/'I don't like it', the problem is that
> this feature caused sometimes the loss of very important packages making
> the system unusable and leading to a necessary reinstallation.
rpm -e --nodeps also.

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