On 2017-10-13 13:37, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jérôme Bouat writes: >> Are "orphans" and "obsolete" 2 different things ? > > Yes. An orphaned package is one that is installed on your system, but > not available in any version from setup. An obsolete package is one > that still exists (usually as an empty package) both in setup and on > your system in order to provide a dependency (usually for older packages > that still refer to the obsolete package name until they can get > rebuilt).
Obsolete packages are also provided in setup like "virtual" packages for backward compatibility with old package names requiring the new package. I recently removed some of these old obsolete packages as I was using the upgraded packages. The next time I ran setup for an upgrade to the underlying package, the obsolete package and obsolete library package were "reinstalled", along with the upgraded real package and library package!? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
