retitle 342787 deborphan treats alternatives and provides in a way that is not
always desirable
thanks
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> I have identified two problems:
>
> 1) if a package Depends of foo | bar, then both foo and bar are
> considered non-orphaned.
>
> 2) if a package Depends of baz and If foo and bar Provides baz,
> then both foo and bar are considered non-orphaned.
Yes, I was aware of these limitations.
> How can we improve this ? For example here I have 45 window managers
> that provide x-window-manager and a single package that has a dependency
> on kwin | x-window-manager. deborphan will not consider any of the wm
> orphaned.
Hmm. Good question. If you do come up with a nice solution and a patch
please let me know!
It would be nice to fix this, but it would possibly also require
chanking some UI. For instance you can't just list all the
windowmanagers in your example, because then things would break if the
user tried to remove them all.
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