On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:31 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> 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 Ok, I think that's enough for today... Thanks, Richard
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