Bug 140346

Summary: Show orphanized packages
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Stephan Binner <stbinner>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_bwNirt9brK, sebestyenszaby
Version: Alpha 4   
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Description Stephan Binner 2005-12-20 16:23:24 UTC 
YaST2 package manager should learn to show orphanized packages (packages which are not required by other packages and are not in wanted selections) and allow to deinstall them like the popular debfoster/deborphan tools.

A typical use case: user installs an application which pulls in some dependencies to test it, uninstalls the application shortly after or way later but the dependencies stay unused installed on the system.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-20 16:39:19 UTC 
I think this would be rather time intensive as YaST would habe to work itself through all packages, checking the deps and afterwards looking for packages with no dependencies. The maintainer should decide, it would be useful.
Comment 2 Klaus Kämpf 2005-12-20 16:52:32 UTC 
I have heard this request often enough to actually accept it.

However, I won't make any promises for Code 10 ...
Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2005-12-21 10:58:02 UTC 
*** Bug 105104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Klaus Kämpf 2006-07-20 17:25:08 UTC 
moved to FATE #300758