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. I then went ahead and deleted a few these with no ill effects. I plan to do more of this, on a careful basis, and not blindly trust it just yet. rpmorphan will report packages that you use from the command line, as long as no other package depends on them so you won't want to go blindly deleteing things. It will also report some portions of libreoffice as orphaned, even some portions that are invoked from other portions of the same suite, so there may be some packaging problems with libreoffice. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org