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

2012-01-08 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 07/01/2012 11:14, ptyxs a écrit : Le 06/01/2012 17:55, Colin Guthrie a écrit : '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

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

2012-01-08 Thread ptyxs
Le 07/01/2012 21:13, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op zaterdag 07 januari 2012 17:48:36 schreef Thomas Spuhler: [...] It seems to me, auto-orphans gives more headaches than benefits. Why are we clinching to it? because it works for me (and several others) It works SOMETIMES and sometimes it

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

2012-01-08 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/8 ptyxs pt...@free.fr: Le 07/01/2012 21:13, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op zaterdag 07 januari 2012 17:48:36 schreef Thomas Spuhler: [...] It seems to me, auto-orphans gives more headaches than benefits. Why are we clinching to it? because it works for me (and several others) It

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

2012-01-08 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 16:48, Thomas Spuhler tho...@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

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

2012-01-08 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 14:24, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2012/1/7 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 13:39, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Of course this is one way to find bugs in packages. But what about the documented (in German) case where  - after fresh

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

2012-01-08 Thread ptyxs
Le 08/01/2012 16:59, Pascal Terjan a écrit : On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 16:48, Thomas Spuhlertho...@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

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

2012-01-08 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 16:04, ptyxs pt...@free.fr wrote: Le 08/01/2012 16:59, Pascal Terjan a écrit : On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 16:48, Thomas Spuhlertho...@btspuhler.com  wrote: On Friday, January 06, 2012 12:57:39 PM Sander Lepik wrote: 06.01.2012 21:06, Dale Huckeby kirjutas: Evidently

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

2012-01-07 Thread Sander Lepik
07.01.2012 01:09, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 06 January 2012 18:54, Balcaen John wrote: I guess when you did encounter that you just remove task-kde from your system I did not. I should have been more clearly with my example. :-)= The packages in my example where all console program,

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

2012-01-07 Thread ptyxs
Le 06/01/2012 17:55, Colin Guthrie a écrit : '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

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

2012-01-07 Thread andre999
Sander Lepik a écrit : 07.01.2012 01:09, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 06 January 2012 18:54, Balcaen John wrote: I guess when you did encounter that you just remove task-kde from your system I did not. I should have been more clearly with my example. :-)= The packages in my example

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

2012-01-07 Thread ptyxs
Le 07/01/2012 11:18, andre999 a écrit : Sander Lepik a écrit : 07.01.2012 01:09, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 06 January 2012 18:54, Balcaen John wrote: I guess when you did encounter that you just remove task-kde from your system I did not. I should have been more clearly with my

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

2012-01-07 Thread Sander Lepik
07.01.2012 12:18, andre999 kirjutas: It is not exactly the same thing, but in more than one occasion when I installed packages with similar functions at the same time, to compare them, say A, B, and C, and later uninstalled B and C, I have found A to be declared an orphan. Only to find that it

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

2012-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/7 andre999 andre999...@laposte.net: Sander Lepik a écrit : 07.01.2012 01:09, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 06 January 2012 18:54, Balcaen John wrote: I guess when you did encounter that you just remove task-kde from your system I did not. I should have been more clearly with

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

2012-01-07 Thread Thomas Backlund
07.01.2012 09:18, LinuxBSDos.com skrev: True that the user does not and should not care about definitions of an orphan, but also, the user should not be put in a situation where he/she will have to go hunting for what could or could not break anything. Well urpme is not at fault. It's doing

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

2012-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/7 Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org: 07.01.2012 09:18, LinuxBSDos.com skrev: True that the user does not and should not care about definitions of an orphan, but also, the user should not be put in a situation where he/she will have to go hunting for what could or could not break

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

2012-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/7 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: Of course this is one way to find bugs in packages. But what about the documented (in German) case where Sorry, documented is not the correct word. I could not document it with logs or namng of files. I only stated what I did and what it

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

2012-01-07 Thread Sander Lepik
07.01.2012 13:39, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Of course this is one way to find bugs in packages. But what about the documented (in German) case where - after fresh installation, reboot (ok) and updates right after installation I was presented with a list of more than 100 orphans. - I ran

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

2012-01-07 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Saturday 07 January 2012 09:42, Sander Lepik wrote: Give us command line example. Install something and remove it and then show me what got orphaned if it wasn't orphan before. What you claim here doesn't sound right as i haven't seen it myself. I'll do that next time I come across

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

2012-01-07 Thread andre999
Sander Lepik a écrit : 07.01.2012 12:18, andre999 kirjutas: It is not exactly the same thing, but in more than one occasion when I installed packages with similar functions at the same time, to compare them, say A, B, and C, and later uninstalled B and C, I have found A to be declared an

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

2012-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/7 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 13:39, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Of course this is one way to find bugs in packages. But what about the documented (in German) case where  - after fresh installation, reboot (ok) and updates right after installation I was presented

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

2012-01-07 Thread Sander Lepik
07.01.2012 16:24, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Used the full DVD (32-bit) Mageia 2 Alpha 2 - minimal install with X How? AFAIK this is not one of the default options. -- Sander

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

2012-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/7 Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 16:24, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Used the full DVD (32-bit) Mageia 2 Alpha 2  - minimal install with X How? AFAIK this is not one of the default options. It is. 1. Select Custom at the DE selection 2. Unmark all package groups 3. Up

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

2012-01-07 Thread Sander Lepik
07.01.2012 17:09, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: 2012/1/7 Sander Lepiksander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 16:24, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Used the full DVD (32-bit) Mageia 2 Alpha 2 - minimal install with X How? AFAIK this is not one of the default options. It is. 1. Select Custom at the DE

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

2012-01-07 Thread Claire Robinson
On 07/01/12 15:30, Sander Lepik wrote: 07.01.2012 17:09, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: 2012/1/7 Sander Lepiksander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 16:24, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Used the full DVD (32-bit) Mageia 2 Alpha 2 - minimal install with X How? AFAIK this is not one of the default

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

2012-01-07 Thread Thomas Spuhler
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

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

2012-01-07 Thread Thomas Backlund
07.01.2012 17:09, Wolfgang Bornath skrev: 2012/1/7 Sander Lepiksander.le...@eesti.ee: 07.01.2012 16:24, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: Used the full DVD (32-bit) Mageia 2 Alpha 2 - minimal install with X How? AFAIK this is not one of the default options. It is. 1. Select Custom at the DE

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

2012-01-07 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 07 januari 2012 17:48:36 schreef Thomas Spuhler: [...] It seems to me, auto-orphans gives more headaches than benefits. Why are we clinching to it? because it works for me (and several others)

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

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Fox
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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Funda Wang
I guess a lot of them are suggested by other packages, rather than required.

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

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:32 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: 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) -

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

2012-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:43:21 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:32 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested orphans - but I

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

2012-01-06 Thread wolf python london
On 6 January 2012 18:43, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:32 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:16:52 +0100 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: After latest Cauldron updates, I got a real long list of suggested orphans - but I believe some of

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

2012-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/6 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net: 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Robert Fox
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 12:27 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/1/6 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net: 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Friday, January 06, 2012 05:16:59 AM Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/1/6 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: 2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com: On 6 January 2012 12:27, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a well known issue. To clear out the list

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

2012-01-06 Thread LinuxBSDos.com
2012/1/6 Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net: 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com: On 6 January 2012 13:16, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 6 January 2012 15:53, LinuxBSDos.com fi...@linuxbsdos.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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 6 January 2012 16:13, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Backlund
06.01.2012 12:16, Robert Fox skrev: 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 06/01/2012 16:13, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 06.01.2012 16:48, schrieb Guillaume Rousse: Le 06/01/2012 16:13, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Friday 06 January 2012 16:13, Thierry Vignaud wrote: The system has to be intelligent enough to know what is or is not an orphan. It is. We claim that it is not. orphan packages are packages that were never directly requested/installed; they're packages that got installed because they

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

2012-01-06 Thread Sander Lepik
06.01.2012 19:40, Johnny A. Solbu kirjutas: On Friday 06 January 2012 16:13, Thierry Vignaud wrote: The system has to be intelligent enough to know what is or is not an orphan. It is. We claim that it is not. Well, the system is ok. Just some packages are probably bogus and don't require all

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

2012-01-06 Thread 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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 6 January 2012 18:54, Balcaen John mik...@mageia.org wrote: The bug is not in urpmi but in the installer phase here. No. (Anyway the installer uses urpmi) I guess when you did encounter that you just remove task-kde from your system, this one is pulling all kde deps, so when removed it's

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

2012-01-06 Thread Sander Lepik
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

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

2012-01-06 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Friday 06 January 2012 18:54, Balcaen John wrote: I guess when you did encounter that you just remove task-kde from your system I did not. I should have been more clearly with my example. :-)= The packages in my example where all console program, that I installed and removed using urpm[ie].

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

2012-01-06 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op vrijdag 06 januari 2012 13:02:26 schreef Thierry Vignaud: 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.