[arch-general] definition of "orphan"
Giancarlo Razzolini
grazzolini at archlinux.org
Thu Mar 11 14:23:31 UTC 2021
Em março 11, 2021 3:43 Matthias Bodenbinder via arch-general escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> in the arch world I see two different definition of an "orphan".
>
> The pacman manpage says:
>
> orphans - packages that were installed as dependencies
> but are no longer required by any installed package.
>
> For the AUR the definition of an "orphan" is
>
> If all maintainers of an AUR package disown it, it will
> become an "orphaned" package.
> (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Maintaining_packages
> )
>
> This is confusing. Would it make sense to change the wording so that it
> is not ambiguous anymore.
>
Your confusion comes from mixing the context of the package manager (pacman) in this case,
and the actual maintainership of packages, which is a different context.
So, both official packages [0] and AUR packages [1] can become orphans in the sense they don't have
a maintainer anymore.
This is different from the orphan in the context of a package manager. As long as you don't conflate
both contexts, it's very easy to understand the differences between these orphans.
Regards,
Giancarlo Razzolini
[0] https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=&maintainer=orphan&flagged=
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&do_Orphans=Orphans
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