On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 08:45 -0400, bruce wrote:
What I've got on my rough process is a complete list of installed apps as well as libs/files from the different sys dirs... and the var dirs..
Most libs (and other system files) will be installed by whatever packages you install (that's if you've been installing packages from the repos).
One thing I do, post-installation, is when I'm adding any extra apps that aren't default, I'll write a log into root's homespace. As I'm yum/dnf installing whatever, I'll copy the commands into my post- install log. That gives me a reminder, for next time, of the things I added.
Yes, I know dnf has a history but it's handy to have some notes about what you chose to install, without having to care about the extra bits it dragged in as dependencies. And a year later, your dnf history might be quite long, as opposed to reading a text file of the 8 things you added after a default install.