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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 6 January 2012 13:16, 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.