When it comes to upgrading

[John Pilkington]

On 30/03/14 16:16, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 30.03.2014 17:05, schrieb John Pilkington:

>>> why is package-kit installed if you don't user it
>>> why is apper installed if you don't use it?
>>> why is anything installed you don't use?
>>
>> Well, in my case I imagine PackageKit et al arrived at some time via something like 'yum install KDE-desktop' and
>> just got left there.  I haven't done a clean install on this box since perhaps F12.
>
> package-cleanup --leaves --all exists
>
> you only need to know what you are using, thats why i build my own set of
> meta packages, look at the SPEC file below, that helps because if deps of
> packages i am using are changing i get no longer needed packages listed
> without need to filter out my used ones all the time

Thanks for that, Harald.  I've copied it to 'useful' and I'll look into it.

Cheers,

John