On 6 January 2012 18:40, Johnny A. Solbu <[email protected]> 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 were requested or suggested >> by other packages that were explicitely choosed. > > Then why does it offer to remove packages that will Break the system, even if > the package was never manually requested? > > I have experienced this my self, many years ago. > Back when I had MDK 9.1 I was looking for an id3 tag editor, for mp3 tagging. > I installed one, tested it uninstalled it and tested a new one untill I found > one that suited my needs. > One of the packages i tested, and uninstalled, also wanted to uninstall _All_ > of KDE in teh process, claming KDE was no longer required.
You understand there was NO ORPHAN SUPPORT back at this time, don't you? This is totally off topic...
