Re: [opensuse] rpmorphan package from Packman

On 01/12/2011 06:47 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 1/11/2011 2:27 PM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:


This is because rpmorphan only considers rpm "Requires:" and not
"Recommends:". So rpmorphan may consider packages orphaned which YaST2
considers needed.

Regards,
Tejas

Why would Yast treat recommends as required?

himm probably yast reads /etc/zypp/zypp.conf

##
## Whether required packages are installed ONLY
## So recommended packages, language packages and packages which depend
## on hardware (modalias) will not be regarded.
##
## Valid values: boolean
## Default value: false
##
solver.onlyRequires = false


Togan

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