[Feature request] Improve ergonomic of adding foreign packages to keep

[MikeNavy]

Hi, In mintupgrade, settings, there is the possibility to make a list of foreign packages to keep. However, it is a long and tedious process:

• user has 1st to establish the list of obsolete packages, and this point is not documented (I did it with "apt list ?obsolete >list.txt" command),
• then user has to transfer the list of packages one by one: copy the package name from the list, paste it in mintupgrade list of foreign packages window, the clik on "validate" button; this takes a lot of time if there are several tens of packages to keep.

Proposed improvement of UI:

• the list of existing foreign packages is shown in the foreign packages to keep, by default unselected,
• user can select them one by one (by a tick on a case) or can select all (by a button to click on).

Regards, MN

[flanaman]

Came here to ask for this as well. Even just being able to copy the list of orphan packages to a text file would be good. This way we can have that list open at the same time we are adding them in the preferences. (Checkboxes would be way better, though.)

[clefebvre]

This is fixed. Only newly orphaned pkgs are removed now.