On 6 January 2012 12:27, Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is a well known issue. > To clear out the list you need a deep knowledge of the system to > determine which packages are really not needed anymore. > > Lately this --auto-orphans line shreddered my whole system on a fresh > install after the first update, several system services could not > start at next reboot, applications did not run, etc. One of the very > few times I had to re-install because of a bug. Call me newbie or > pussy but until this is not a secure function I will never touch it > again.
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...
