On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 1:55 AM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
[...] So anything I knew I did not want, I removed. With other things, I dnf downgraded. So I removed `-—enablerepo=*` from my cheat sheet. I thought I had removed abiword years ago and do not remember ever adding goffice. They are gone now. A bunch of others are gone too.
Things went smoothly after that.
Good to see that.
I am thinking of doing a full `dnf list installed` and seeing what else I have hanging around that I thought I had removed or do not want anymore.
I use some software that is distributed as mostly statically compiled binaries and come with source. C++ seems to be dynamically linked. Sometimes I have R packages that came from some github project and aren't in the "official" repos.
After upgrades there are often packages from older Fedora versions and no longer used by Fedora, but may still be used by copr packages or locally compiled stuff. Usually there are "new and improved" replacements available in current Fedora repos. Cleanup involves research to find replacements and often some tweaks to source code. With R, packages now bundle sources for libraries that have been removed from some distro repositories (or the Msys2 system R uses on Windows). There is a growing problem with R and Python users running older distros and getting different results or missing capabilities present in newer distros.