On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:30:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote inter alia: > i realize it sounds like a weird request, but has no one else ever gone > through this -- installing one RPM after another (plus its dependencies) > as you identify which other packages you need to do something? and after > it's all over, you'd love to get rid of all that stuff you don't need > anymore? I do something like that. It works, fairly conveniently on the scale I use it, and maybe it will on yours. su or sudo to root on two different tabs on your terminal. Start your install (or update) on one, and pause when it asks yes or no. C&p the things you don't want, or won't want for long, to "dnf remove" on the second tab, but DO NOT hit enter. Repeat as needed. Let the full install go through. If there are many rpms on the second tab, c&p to a text file. Hit enter on the remove command; and look carefully on what it will take with it. If there are many removals, abort the remove, and go through your text file individually. Now reverse the procedure: during remove(s), c&p anything you need, and try installing it alone after the remove(s). All the above sounds like a lot more trouble than it actually is, thanks to cyber-speed, IF you're doing it on the scale I am. Whether it's worth the stuff you mean, I can't guess. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/P43X7JHWIGR5PDWZYHA34D3JOLTL3ZPA/
