How does your package manager handle orphaned packages?

Posted by finid on Dec 6, 2011 9:00 PM
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The last time I followed a distribution’s suggestion to remove some packages that were no longer needed, I completely hosed the system. Could not use it afterwards. Though the machine was a test machine, the experience thought me to always let sleeping dogs lie.

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