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Mr. Alex 04-12-2012 03:11 AM
About Arch orphan packages
 
Hi!
If a package is orphan in AUR - it means that the maintainer no longer supports it. And if a package is orphan in the system - it means it was not installed explicitly and is not needed by any other package. Right?

And are there orphans in official repos?

Snark1994 04-12-2012 06:15 AM
As far as I'm aware, that is correct.

From the Arch fora: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50869

From the man pages for pacman:
Quote:
This option can be combined with -t for listing real orphans - packages that were installed as dependencies but are no longer required by any installed packaged.
Regarding the last question, it appears there are: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ts#Orphan_Team

Regards,

Mr. Alex 04-12-2012 07:30 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Internal_Projects#Orphan_Team
Responsible for caring for those packages that no one seems to want
How do maintainers know if noone is interested in a package. AFAIK pacman doesn't send any information about its usage to Arch developers.

TobiSGD 04-12-2012 07:38 AM
I think you misunderstood that. The orphan teams looks for packages that no one wants to maintain, not for packages that nobody is using.

Snark1994 04-13-2012 08:29 AM
Has that answered your question? If so, please mark the thread as [SOLVED] :)

Thanks,

Mr. Alex 04-13-2012 01:33 PM
Yeah, thanks to everybody, those posts answered the question.


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