eopkg and unintended orphans

[bradyjam]

Howdy!

A couple times I've run into an issue where a package installed as a dependency is marked or removal as an orphan, and the only way to keep it around is by reinstalling it.

For example, I installed zsh-autosuggestions which pulls zsh as a dependency, without explicitly installing zsh. When I uninstalled zsh-autosuggestions without autoremove, zsh stayed as desired, but was marked as orphaned.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement something similar to dnf mark, pacman -D or xbps-query -m to mark packages, for example as explicitly installed, or as a soft dependency, or back to automatic default.

Thank you for you time.

[ermo]

I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement something similar to dnf mark, pacman -D or xbps-query -m to mark packages, for example as explicitly installed, or as a soft dependency, or back to automatic default.

Is an eopkg it --reinstall zsh not doing it for you?

For context, eopkg is essentially in maintenance mode, so unless the fix is literally trivial (with no impact elsewhere), we're unlike to get to this if existing functionality (even if suboptimal) already does the job.

[ermo]

@sheepman4267 Pinging you here in case you have a really good idea.

Free free to unassign yourself and close as wontfix if you can't see this being done easily.