Re: tip: when dnf thinks you are on the wrong release

[Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/11/24 09:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/11/24 1:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > > Am I doing something wrong then when I did not have to do any cleanup
> > > for the system to be in this state?
> > > As a side issue, I might be treading on thin ice here, I have never done
> > > any of the post-install processes on any version of Fedora. Until I saw
> > > references to them in this list when I was on F39, I didn't know they
> > > existed to even go looking for them.
> > > I did one try dnf autoremove and that wanted to remove half my system,
> > > so I abandoned that process, and issuing it now wants to remove 299
> > > packages, some of which look to be old from their names, but how do I
> > > know whether they are actually redundant or whether I am using something
> > > from them. For example, it wants to remove package f36-backgrounds-
> > > gnome, how do I know whether I am using a background from that package
> > > hence should not be removed?
> > >         
> > I have never done any of those post-install processes.
> >       
> Out of morbid curiosity, what does the output of this command look like?
>
>    sudo symlinks -r / | grep dangling
>     
    On my system there are a mountain of dangling symlinks which I don't
    know whether they should be there or not. I did run a post-install
    cleanup of dangling symlinks as specified in the documentation, but
    how do I know whether that process is going to delete the dangling
    symlink or convert it into a hard file (the removal or dangling
    symlinks for /usr did both). But there are also some dangling
    symlinks for Windows fonts in the Windows drive C font folder
    created by Wine, why are they dangling?
    
    regards,
    Steve
    
> Jeff
>

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