BTW, for some reason I don't seem to get your posts from the list. It could be some sort of dupe checking gnus does on my side, but I thought I should mention it just in case. Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 12.06.2013 00:41, schrieb lee: >> For example, I know for sure that I never needed or wanted the package >> "xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.6.2-6.fc18.x86_64", yet it is listed by >> "package-cleanup --leaves --all". Why is this package installed, and >> since I didn't install it, why does it remain installed? > > because it was in some defualt group or installed by whatever dependency Yes, I'd think so --- and now this dependency doesn't exist anymore, or the group doesn't pull it in anymore. Therefore, the package management should have removed it since I didn't tell it to install it. > "package-cleanup --leaves --all" ha sto be used with care > it lists practically all was it not neede for the base-system > but it is a good indicator what coul be theoretically removed > and on my systems there is no single unused package which makes > upgrades much faster and last but not least update conflicts > a thing i hadrly see over years I think I'll make that perl script to go through these packages and remove those I don't need. Apparently they don't hurt anything, but it's better not to have packages installed that aren't needed. -- "Object-oriented programming languages aren't completely convinced that you should be allowed to do anything with functions." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
