the most recent update to F40 pkgs: pcre2* 10.44-1 caused a minor headache here. easy workaround then, and all good now. but did cause me to look at the supposedly-deprecated-since-f38 pcre, and making sure it's cleanly out of systems & devel here. here, i found, rpm -qa | grep pcre | sort pcre2-10.44-1.fc40.x86_64 pcre2-devel-10.44-1.fc40.x86_64 pcre2-syntax-10.44-1.fc40.noarch pcre2-tools-10.44-1.fc40.x86_64 pcre2-utf16-10.44-1.fc40.x86_64 pcre2-utf32-10.44-1.fc40.x86_64 pcre-8.45-1.fc40.6.x86_64 pcre-cpp-8.45-1.fc40.6.x86_64 rpm -q --whatrequires pcre no package requires pcre rpm -q --whatrequires $(rpm -ql `rpm -qa | grep pcre | grep 8.45`) no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id/10 no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id/10/6b6ed387f7b563decf51ce110bae9ba599ce26 no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id/b3 no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id/b3/2be8d6c1cea0e1e56c212fb3b18888efce67a2 no package requires /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1 no package requires /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.13 no package requires /usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0 no package requires /usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0.0.7 no package requires /usr/share/doc/pcre no package requires /usr/share/doc/pcre/AUTHORS no package requires /usr/share/doc/pcre/NEWS no package requires /usr/share/licenses/pcre no package requires /usr/share/licenses/pcre/COPYING no package requires /usr/share/licenses/pcre/LICENCE no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id/f5 no package requires /usr/lib/.build-id/f5/bc2419aae896f92ea67eb710184241cb2e1683 no package requires /usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0 no package requires /usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0.0.2 looks clean. should be ez nuf to rm. but dnf remove pcre Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================ Removing: pcre x86_64 8.45-1.fc40.6 @fedora 542 k Removing dependent packages: ark x86_64 24.05.0-1.fc40 @updates 3.2 M ark-libs x86_64 24.05.0-1.fc40 @updates 1.8 M blender x86_64 1:4.1.1-7.fc40 @updates 280 M ... yt-dlp-bash-completion noarch 2024.05.27-1.fc40 @updates 6.0 k zimg x86_64 3.0.5-2.fc40 @fedora 813 k zxing-cpp x86_64 2.0.0-6.fc40 @fedora 1.2 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================ ??? Remove 336 Packages ??? Freed space: 3.2 G that's certainly not a good option :-/ *CAN* pcre1 (v8x) be safely removed from F40? if so, how's recommended? and, what am I missing in my queries that fails to show why/where it's dependency-tied to ~ 3.2G of pkg? -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
