Obsolete RPMs

[Dave Cross]

On 28 June 2011 17:40, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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..

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