[SOLVED] About Arch orphan packages

Mr. Alex · 04-12-2012, 03:11 AM

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.