Re: [opensuse] rpmorphan package from Packman

On 11/01/11 20:30, John Andersen wrote:
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 is because rpmorphan only considers rpm "Requires:" and not
"Recommends:". So rpmorphan may consider packages orphaned which YaST2
considers needed.

Regards,
Tejas
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