Description of problem: Plasma applet show desktop is always prompted as orphan, nevertheless I use it Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): plasma-applet-showdesktop-4.8.2-1.mga2.i586 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Simply work with package manager through control panel 2. After all changes applied there will be message about orphaned packages 3. show desktop applet will be prompted as orphan 4. ????? 5. PROFIT!!!!111oneoneone
plasma-applet-showdesktop-4.8.2-1.mga2.i586 is affected also.
Priority: Normal => LowComponent: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
(In reply to comment #1) > plasma-applet-showdesktop-4.8.2-1.mga2.i586 is affected also. Damn, I wanted to say plasma-applet-folderview %(
how have you installed these applet ? manually with urpmi/rpmdrake ?
Nope, they were on board right after system installation, I chose KDE as my desktop.
ok will try to reproduce with the pre-mageia3
s/mageia3/mageia2 ...
Yep, forgot to mention: Mageia 2 RC, clean installation :)
can't reproduce using the default kde desktop, and both packages are required for task-kde-minimal so it seems strange
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Well after installation I decided to clean my system a little, removing some packages useless for me (Digikam, Firefox, Korganizer, Kontact etc). After removal of course there was a message about orphans. I always try to remove orphans from system through "urpme --auto-orphans". This procedure was always safe and removed only really orphaned packages, so I ran that command without even noticing what will be removed. And was very "surprised" when after reboot had a clean desktop due to "folderview" applet removal, and also saw a red square with cross in it on panel, which indicated that my "showdesktop" applet disappeared also. I`ll try to dig a little deeper into problem. I think there is a dependency bug somewhere, gotta find out which package causes it.
Found it! Removing Konqueror causes task-kde4-minimal-4.8.0-7.mga2.noarch to be removed too due to dependency. However folderview and showdesktop are dependent on kde-task-minimal too and when this package is removed these applets become orphan. If you remove one of applets task-kde4-minimal removed too due to dependency. This is curious because whole bunch of packages become orphan after task-kde4-minimal removal: dolphin, kdeartwork4-kscreensaver, kwrite and others.
yep indeed this is know 'issue' you can use urpmi <the packages you wan't to keep> so urpme will not pick out these one.
Yep I know about this feature that installation through urpmi marks package as manually installed, so it never orphaned then. But for unaware users it can become a little trouble. *SCRATCH*
Because too many packages dependent on task-kde4-minimal.
If you want to uninstall konqueror, but don't want the other packages to become orphans, the way to do that is rpm -e --nodeps konqueror echo konqueror>>/etc/urpmi/skip.list
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins