-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Beartooth wrote: <snip> > The package kit shows so many items under "Other" and > "Programming" that I told it "apply" without them; ran yum update; and > came back. > > Moderately bad news : the nice info under other rubrics, > particularly the required-by tab, are entirely lacking in these. There is > no way I can find for anybody who doesn't already know to tell what can > be cut away safely and what not, except by trial and disaster. what you are running into is main part of what i like and dislike, leaning too often on dislike about c and rpm *packages*. everything is dependent. even with mandrake's 'ccc', i had many times of aggravation in removing programs, so i took things to a different view, and looks like it will be put back to use with yum and maybe with packagekit. when i ran into a program that i could not remove because it would remove what i wanted also, i opened kwrite and noted what i did not want, then removed name from list of what i wanted to remove. after removing what i could, i would go to /usr/share and rename directories with '*.2brmvd'. then let them sit while i tried their co-parts. if all went well, i would go back later and remove them. now, if you really want to clean up a bunch of dead files, you will really be surprised just how much is wasted with 'locale'. several hundred megs can be clear just by going into the various 'locale' directories and removing what you do not need. you will find them under /usr/java/*, /usr/lib/locale/, /usr/share/locale/, /usr/share/X11/locale/, there is one slight problem, they get built back and you do need to clean them back out when every you run yum or rpm. one day i will write a script to remove then and stop doing it by hand. > in livna. I installed the F9 livna rpm, and tried "yum install pirut," > but it still only told me I already had packagekit. > > What's so wrong with having both?? One of my PCs does; but I > can't remember how I got it there ... remove packagekit, install pirut, then install packagekit back. :o) - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFItLVl+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAtEKAJ9AmOPeC+UxAAxSww60Zhi6ap72TwCgwLm0 WOT17d2RQWjSQ9QprQI5GAQ= =3GzR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
