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|    Charles Pierson to Vincent Coen    |
|    Re: Silly Question    |
|    25 Jan 21 07:28:44    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46       MSGID: 1:106/127 2b15022d       REPLY: 2:250/1@fidonet 600ec1a2       TZUTC: -0600       On 25 Jan 2021, Vincent Coen said the following...        VC> > Thanks. I had tried the first one, but not the second yet.        VC>         VC>         VC> Warning - on other distros such as Mageia after a update when the updater        VC> reports that some packages are now orphaned it is lying        VC>         VC> So removing them can break links with other packages it does not know        VC> about one        VC> way or another.        VC>         VC> Suggest you never remove such unused packages in future unless you        VC> really know it is clear. Depending on your package manager and yes        VC> there is more than one there are some tools that can be used to verify        VC> that nothing installed via the manager is being used UNLESS you have        VC> manually installed some products which they do not know about.              Thanks.               Neither od Rick's suggestions fixed the message, so I'm leaving it alone.       It's more of an annoyance than a problem, and nothing I am running have any       issues I have seen.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: theoasisbbs.ddns.net:1357 (1:106/127)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 106/127 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 153/757 203/0 221/0 1 6 242 226/30 227/114 702 229/424 426       SEEN-BY: 229/550 616 664 1016 1017 240/5411 5832 5853 249/206 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 280/464 288/100 292/8125 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 423/81 712/848 4500/1       PATH: 106/127 221/6 1 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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