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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

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

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.

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wobo