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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
> 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...

Yes, right, I'd not remove such packages manually - they were marked
as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim.

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wobo