Hi all, couldn't answer earlier, thanks for hooking on the thread.
@billo:
Yeah, my answer to most of these "how do I do this complex reconfiguration
Why should it be 'complex'? It's certainly complex here - or it's just me as I'm not used to Fedora's way.
I've been using Arch & Gentoo for the last few years (~6) and never experienced that on Arch (it's super modular and flexible) while I had minor issues w/ Gentoo.
" thing with a box I've dicking around with for two days and have all sorts fo stuff gumming up the works"
In my case I've been running F21 since the official release and it's been a smooth sailing for the most part.
I have tons of things installed and some low-level tweaks performed - not mention that these days I don't have much spare time to play with my system, I need it to work - so performing a new installation isn't a choice.
Moreover, problem isn't the time spent on installing the system but the one spent to later leave it at the same point it is right now [0].
" questions is usually "reinstall." For me, anyway, it takes, what, 30 mins to reinstall Fedora <insert spin here> without the gunk I wish I hadn't added, but four or five hours chasing dependencies and stuff trying to "clean" a system that has a couple hundred packages installed I decided I didn't want.
Yep, thinking about spending four or five hours chasing dependencies does indeed sound crazy, should it be that way? Besides this experience, in the past I only experienced the so-called dependency hell when running Debian and its derivatives.
"A clean install is the chicken soup of system administration, IMHO."
I don't agree here. To me it is a sane rolling release/upgrade cycle.
-M.
[0 You folks may find interesting using a combination of GNU Stow + Git (or a similar DVCS) to manage your dot files, both system and personal ones. To held configs and customizations on private repos makes it super easy to deploy them across all your systems, make rollbacks, etc.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/09/15 12:21, Heinz Diehl wrote:
FWIW: this is an installation from the XFCE spin, with additional devel andHere's an XFCE Live spin I installed a few days ago with a few added applications:
administration packages:
[htd@chiara ~]$ rpm -qa gnome\* | wc -l
13
[bobg@bobgASRockServer ~]$ rpm -qa gnome\* | wc -l
9
Bob
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