2012/1/6 Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]>: > On 6 January 2012 12:27, Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> 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...
Yes, right, I'd not remove such packages manually - they were marked as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim. -- wobo
