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

[ptyxs]

Le 08/01/2012 16:59, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 16:48, Thomas Spuhler<thomas at btspuhler.com>  wrote:
>> 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?
> Because I and meany other people finding it useful never faced any
> problems on their machine with it.
>
> The only problems I can remember are:
> - people wanted to remove some things required by task-kde, which
> implied removing task-kde, and then all of kde was orphan. I think
> many things were move to suggests since
> - some kind of install was installing packages requested by nothing
> and they were not marked as requested so they were listed as orphans,
> but this was fixed long ago
>
I recently installed Okular then i removed xpdf and then used 
auto-orphans : I immedialtely lost any possibility to use wifi...


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