On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:30:45 -0800, Fred wrote: > Don't know if you are a user of the Mate GUI for Dnf found in System > > Administration > dnfdragora > Information > History. This provides a > nice graphical view of the dnf history sorted by date/time/name of the > updated and installed programs. If you install one program at a time, > it is really easy to see what dependencies were pulled in for which > program. > > For example: It shows that on 30 May I installed VLC which pulled in 50 > other packages with it. One of them being the kde-filesystem. New to me, and very interesting: many thanks! I don't think I dare do everything one app at a time. I generally rely on 'dnf upgrade' to tell me what's new, and then just assent to it, unless I'm deliberately adding or removing something (lots of that, and easy to forget, after any new install). If dnf looks like adding or removing something against my usage, I c&p the app name(s) to a second mate terminal tab logged in as root, with 'dnf install' or 'dnf remove'. Then when dnf upgrade has finished, I go to the other tab, hit enter, and look *sharp* at what it proposes to do. Adding an app back, bless the developers!, usually brings back dependencies with it, but mostly fewer than I removed before. Deleting something crufty-looking is most dangerous, and may require a second round, or more likely a deep breath and a shrug. -- 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
