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

[Florian Hubold]

Am 06.01.2012 17:55, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
> '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
>
>
Interesting, now i rememeber you mentioned this already a few times.
Will also add it to said wiki page.


Unrelated, could anyone please comment on how rpm-find-leaves
aka urpmi_rpm-find-leaves fits into the picture?