Re: [arch-general] definition of "orphan"

Am Donnerstag, dem 11.03.2021 um 16:15 +0100 schrieb Lars Gustäbel:

I really don't know what you're trying to prove here. I would be interested in which words you would propose to distinguish between the two contexts.

The pacman defintion is a local definition which only applies to an individual PC. If I have an orphan package on my PC, it is not neccessarily an orphan on your PC. The AUR definition of orphan is a global definition. Meaning, an orphan AUR package is orphan for everybody. I would distinguish this use case by calling it "abandoned" instead or oprhan.