On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:11:29 -0000 (UTC) Beartooth Beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:06:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/06/2019 00:52, Beartooth wrote:
I run Mate under F30. I assume Mate calls a lot of Gnome code (most or all of what Gnome3 didn't change). So I never worry about any new app bringing Gnome stuff with it.
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What are you looking to gain from this exercise?
Space (which I probably don't really need); celerity maybe; slightly better security maybe (with fewer idle apps for some nogoodnik to attack through); a little more play with my nice toys, which might teach me something. You see why I wonder if it's worth it.
Take what I say with a grain of salt, I too am a mostly clueless Mate on Fedora user.
Don't know if you are a user of the Mate GUI for Dnf found in System > Administration > dnfdragora > Information > History. This provides a nice graphical view of the dnf history sorted by date/time/name of the updated and installed programs. If you install one program at a time, it is really easy to see what dependencies were pulled in for which program.
For example: It shows that on 30 May I installed VLC which pulled in 50 other packages with it. One of them being the kde-filesystem.