On 2017-04-28 15:30, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 28/04/17 08:23 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
# which rpmorphan /usr/bin/rpmorphan My post shows that I installed it to try. Then I removed it instantly, it is useless.
Ah, good! A nice sweeping statement, an absolutists one. nicve and contentious.
I have, occasionally, managed to hammer in a mail with the heel of my show. But I've found that my g/f's Jimmy Chou high heels are, just like rpmorphan is for you and some unspecified task, 'useless' for hammering in nails.
What is it you were trying to do with rpmorphan for which is is useless to you and which it was of use to me and others?
It lists many -lang packages, many components of libreoffice. I don't recognize them as orphaned.
I think you have a problem with the definition of 'orphaned' then. In this context it means 'no dependencies'.
The core packages can function without the language packages, they are not dependent on them. They can be uninstalled without the main package stop working.
Not so. They are needed when you are not American. What use is a program if I can not understand what it says?
The same goes for the font and skins such as libreoffice-icon-theme-breeze libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen
I also see that 'extensions' (aka plugins) and templates (auch as "libreoffice-templates-labels-letter") are listed.
Yes, openoffice can function without all of these. (It can function without the KDE4 links and without 'base' as wel.)
No, that the basic functions continue working does not define those packages as "not needed". All those things are needed. rpmorphan is a useless program because the output can not be trusted. Most of what it listed is needed. I could not locate things that are not needed. It can only be done by removing automatically installed packages when you remove the package that called them in. And to do this reliably we need a database of what was called in and what not, as others said. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)