(In reply to Michael Schr�der from comment #1) > Are you confusing orphaned packages with unneeded packages? Orphaned just > means that there's no package with the same name or a package that obsoletes > it in the repositories. It doesn't say that no other package has a > dependency on it. hi there. this might be a little tweak you could add in which if any package is found to have dependencies, it should not show up in orphaned or recommended. just an idea