licq + atitvout + gai-pal : Orphaned dependencies!

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Tue May 16 20:44:01 UTC 2006


On Mon, 15 May 2006 16:35:35 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:

> > On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:35 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages
> > >
> > > The packages
> > >
> > >   lrmi
> > >   xosd
> > >
> > > are on the list of orphaned packages. They are required by:
> > >
> > >   atitvout  (lrmi)
> > >   gai-pal  (xosd)
> >
> > licq  also needs xosd.
> 
> Are you sure xosd is orphaned?

Yes, of course:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages?action=diff&rev2=255&rev1=254

> it's also used by bmp-xosd, and an
> irssi plugin also uses xosd.  I have xosd installed on my system, and
> it doesn't look orphaned to me.

The notion of an "orphan" is about whether the package has a package owner
or not. The package itself may be up-to-date and in good shape.




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