On 28 June 2011 17:40, Kam Leo kam.leo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Dave Cross davorg@gmail.com wrote:
I've upgraded a couple of systems from F14 to F15 using preupgrade. Everything seems to have gone fine.
I'm slowly getting used to GNOME 3 and I'm sure that it will make sense to me one day.
But it strikes me that there will now be a number of obsolete RPMs hanging around on my system. These will be the RPMs relating to features used in GNOME 2 but not in GNOME 3. I'm thinking of things like compiz and all of the applets. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just remove all of these RPMs? Are there any more that I can remove safely?
You can use package-cleanup; however, read the man page before using it. Beware that --orphans flags locally installed packages as well as those no longer found in your enabled repositories.
Thanks. I know about package-cleanup but that doesn't really address what I was talking about. I think i was either unclear r confused (possibly both).
I think there are potentially RPMs that are still available from the repos which are no longer required under GNOME 3. I see that the GNOME applet RPMs were all removed by the upgrade, but I still have a number compiz RPMs which (if I understand correctly) are no longer used under GNOME 3. They've been updated to F15 versions, but I don't think I need them any more.
Or am I completely wrong?
Cheers,
Dave..