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.
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaudSource RPM: (none) => rpmdrake
CC: (none) => nick.degraeve
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
(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
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools