I've just done something incredibly stupid. Ans what is worse, this is the second time I've done it. I've issued the command 'urpme --auto-orphans. The sight of all those orphaned files, after an update offends me, despite assurances that they're ok where they are, and thes's plenty of room in the system partition, I yearn to remover them. The last time I did this, about a third of the entire install went with them, and much of the rest was broken. I'd watched appalled as all the files scrolled past into oblivion. I had to re-install the whole thing again, from scratch and spend hours as the system updated again. This time, there was only a short list, and I scrutinised the whole lot before committing myself.. Five minutes later, I realised that I'd done it again. Konqueror, my file manager of choice, had suddenly decided that the View Mode I really wanted to see was something called FSview. Thousands (seemingly) of coloured rectangles, mostly without names, instead of the neatly ordered rows of names and details. I could never understand why Konqueror was reduced to the ranks in favour of Dolphin. In my view a far too simplistic device with seeming few of the useful attributes of konqueror. So this I use, despite it being now more difficult to set up as one would like it. Now, I discovered that of all the view options, I now only have terminal emulator, FS view and Cervisia. Terminal emulator is of little point, Cervisia I long ago learnt that it was a sure fire way of crashing the whole machine. And what FSview is supposed to do, I've no idea. Now, suddenly, after two cups of tea, and a round of toast and marmalde, and this rant. Konqueror is restored back to it's glorious self, without my having to lift a finger. I can now re-de-install Dolphin, that I'd re-installed as something that at least did show me the files.. But, I shall never, never, never again delete an orphaned package.
Rod Goslin