On 6 January 2012 13:16, Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> 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 - they were marked >> as orphans and removed by the function - which is my claim. > > To make it clear - my claim is that the orphan function marked > packages as orphans which are needed and which I'd never remove > manually. If you have a list of 100 "orphans" it is next to impossible > for a normal user to sit down and check each and every package if it > is really an orphan (orphan in the sense of "not needed").
I never say you manually removed them. Again, if packages break after urpme --auto-orphans, they can break after manually removing packages, thus the issue is that those packages lacks requires on needed components.
