Bug 8123

Summary:	Add "orphaned" as selective view to rpmdrake
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Peter Schwanemann <Nasenbaer>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, nick.degraeve, swbutler38, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	rpmdrake	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Peter Schwanemann 2012-11-18 10:18:16 CET

Currently rpmdrake has selective views (besides "all") for "meta-packages", "gui-packages" and different kind of updates.

As rpmdrake might show a list of orphaned packages after (un-)installation of some packages, it would be nice to be able to select "orphaned packages" as well, to see what kind of packages are marked as orphaned.

I know that the "show orphaned packages" feature of urpme sometimes shows false positives and could lead a "newbe" to delete packages (s)he would still need. But actually I think if those "newbes" have to select the packages one after another in rpmdrake, see each name, it's category and most likely it's description as well, such issues would be even more rare than they are now. Opening a terminal and running the command that rpmdrake showed in the pop up, on the other hand, happens much faster I guess.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-18 16:59:08 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => rpmdrake

Nick De Graeve 2013-03-19 09:13:42 CET

CC: (none) => nick.degraeve

Comment 1 Stephen Butler 2013-09-25 21:59:28 CEST

You might think about silencing auto-orphans from the gui.
Check out my patch solution at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11287.

I could even make a patch for cauldron.

CC: (none) => swbutler38

Comment 2 Florian Hubold 2014-11-18 21:30:10 CET

(In reply to Peter Schwanemann from comment #0)
> As rpmdrake might show a list of orphaned packages after (un-)installation
> of some packages, it would be nice to be able to select "orphaned packages"
> as well, to see what kind of packages are marked as orphaned.

FWIW, a distantly related function is available via qt4urpm, which was written by a contributor and available via standard Mageia repos.

See also https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Removing_packages#Tool_to_Manage_Orphans

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-15 21:28:13 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools