On 1/11/2011 10:03 AM, John Andersen wrote:
On 1/11/2011 5:31 AM, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Have dowloaded this package and found that from the 471 rpm packages I have 87 orpans. those are all lib's and looking into the information provided in the Gui I am at a loss if I need them and what the harm would be to remove them.
If I would remove those 87 lib packages from which I cannot guss if they would be needed by one of the programms I am using, would a zypper verify or zypper install-new-recommends repair the missing package?
Found on the web that version 1.8.1 is out. This openSUSE package is version 1.6. Is it still safe to use it? Any experience with rpmorphan.
I used the 1.8 version from Packman.
My results are similar to yours, lots of libs that show nothing depending on them.
I very carefully went in to yast marked them for removal and watched for anything yast warned me about (such as other packages that would be removed and unmet dependencies, etc). So far, sticking strictly with the libs, I've not found any that had any dependencies in yast that rpmorphan did not also detect.
Following up on my own post, I have found a few instances where rpmorphan will suggest some libs as unneeded, and when you remove them via remorphan, and then jump into yast, yast will immediately show these same packages as being scheduled for auto-add. So there are some serious shortcomings in rpmorphan's ability to track down requirements, but Yast will fix things up after the fact. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org