Obsolete RPMs

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Dave Cross <davorg at 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.


> Cheers,
>
> Dave....