Am 12.03.21 um 14:39 schrieb Lukáš Kucharczyk via arch-general: > I think making the terminology clearer is a benefit > to English speakers at all levels of language mastery. > > Calling the things what they are, > that is unmaintained package and unneeded package, is > an overall improvement to clarity, and also sidesteps the confusion stemming from one word meaning something different > in different but adjacent contexts. > In the local case, "unneeded" may be too strong. It is possible a package has been installed as a dependency and later you started to use its commands directly. If you remove the package depending on it now, it is not unnecessary. I think orphaned covers that case well, the final action may be removal if the package is truly unneeded or a promotion to explicitly installed status.
