On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:31 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 10:39 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Working on downloading all the packages to update to Fedora 31 and noticed
> that I have 4877 packages (and 6GB) to update (excluding a handful of new
> weak dependencies).
Sounds about right.
> Anyone have a good workflow they use to remove unneeded packages?
Define "unneeded". You might have something you only use once a month,
or once every six months. Only you can know. In my own case I sometimes
install something to try it, and if it doesn't interest me I remove it
immediately, but of course over time some things slip through the
cracks until I notice them.
Well, I don't just mean end user packages. I haven't done a fresh install since at least Fedora 24 and before DNF leaf packages were not automatically removed...
I almost asked this question on the devel list since a lot of the packages are -devel ones. I used to build things using plain rpmbuild all the time but for the most part I just use mock. Also, I'd like to use toolbox to create dedicated development environments for particular packages (especially ones with long/difficult package dependency chains) but I can't seem to get it to work (another story) under my build user. I don't do packaging work under my main account.
Back to the topic at hand...
# dnf repoquery --unneeded produces some interesting results...
Some of them I want to keep so I'm doing "dnf mark installed <package>" to get them off the list.
Now
# dnf repoquery --unneeded | xargs dnf -y erase
55 packages down...
# rpm -qa | grep devel | xargs dnf mark remove
# dnf autoremove
365 packages down...
# rpm -qa | wc -l
4645
4645
Ok, I think that's enough for today...
Thanks,
Richard
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