On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 04:24:49PM +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > 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.
Yes, "abandoned" is good indeed. Although, I would prefer to have orphan packages on my system be called "unneeded" packages. It is much more precise in my opinion. -- Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de
