On 10/15/19 10:37 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 17:26 +0000, sixpack13 wrote:
> I guess you could
> - remove all packages lower than F29 if you are currently on F29
I wouldn't do that without research. Sometimes old packages will be
re-used with a new release, as there wasn't any need to recompile them.
Yes, research is required. Especially in the event one may be using some of them.
I would not willy-nilly erase all of them.
But, reading the DNF man page:
Lists extras, that is packages installed on the system that are not available in any
known repository.
And some cursory checks on an F30 system:
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info empathy
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:07 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:05:10 AM CST.
Error: No matching Packages to list
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info jpathwatch
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:37 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:05:10 AM CST.
Error: No matching Packages to list
Suggest some of them may not be available in the F30 repos.
But some of them are....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf info beignet
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:03 ago on Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:05:10 AM CST.
Installed Packages
Name : beignet
Version : 1.3.2
Release : 5.fc29
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 19 M
Source : beignet-1.3.2-5.fc29.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : fedora
Summary : Open source implementation of the OpenCL for Intel GPUs
URL :
https://01.org/beignet/
License : LGPLv2+
Description : Beignet is an open source implementation of the OpenCL
: specification - a generic compute oriented API. This code base
: contains the code to run OpenCL programs on Intel GPUs which
: basically defines and implements the OpenCL host functions required
: to initialize the device, create the command queues, the kernels
: and the programs and run them on the GPU.
So, one wonders why that package showed up as "extra".
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