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

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Sat Jan 7 17:48:36 CET 2012


On Friday, January 06, 2012 12:57:39 PM Sander Lepik wrote:
> 06.01.2012 21:06, Dale Huckeby kirjutas:
> > Evidently once I've installed package A which requests X, sometimes
> > packages F, L, and T might subsequently get installed which also need X
> > *and presumably would have requested it had it not already been
> > installed*.  But when I uninstall A it orphans X because A is the only
> > package that *requested* it.  When F, L, and T are installed can't all
> > the packages they *would have requested* be marked whether or not
> > they're already installed?  That way a package would be orphaned only
> > when the last package that needs it is uninstalled?  Or am I missing
> > something?
> 
> This is already so. See example: http://pastebin.com/AMj87QiV - after first
> urpme libplasmaweather4 should be marked as orphan but it's not as it's
> still required by other package.
> 
> --
> Sander

It seems to me, auto-orphans gives more headaches than benefits. Why are we 
clinching to it?

-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler


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