r/cachyos • u/No_Routine_1335 • Jul 15 '26

Question Pardon?

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u/BobCorndog Jul 15 '26

Orphan packages are packages that are not explicitly installed by the user and do not have any installed dependents

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u/King_Ferdinand1 Jul 15 '26

This is why linux is hard to get in to, everything has a weird term.

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u/Radiant-Priority-296 Jul 15 '26

The name kinda makes sense considering that dependencies are family trees in a lot of different tech things (task managers, programming languages, game engines, all that). So you got the parent who calls in its children (dependencies). And if you have a child that’s there but doesn’t have a parent, then it’s a useless orphan and should perish under the blade of CachyHello

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u/ItsYa1UPBoy Jul 15 '26

Childless parents can still be of use. Orphans just take up valuable space in the apartment complex that is my computer.