Orphan packages in rawhide

Martin Preisler mpreisle at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 08:36:38 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lukas Zapletal" <lzap at redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 10:30:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Orphan packages in rawhide
> 
> > It depends on boost which in turn depends on mpich which was orphaned.
> 
> Oh, I've forced out this option from my mind. Interesting.
> 
> Well, launchy is not much maintained software and not in wide use. I am
> fine with orphaning it.

You don't have to orphan it. No action is required. The email is basically
telling you that one of your deps got orphaned, perhaps you might want to
adopt it yourself. At least that's how I understand it.

And since a lot of packages depend on boost there are a lot of packages
on that list :-)

-- 
Martin Preisler


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