dnf bloat

Beartooth beartooth at comcast.net
Tue Oct 6 16:20:22 UTC 2015


	After any new install, I go through yumex looking for things I 
can remove. With big apps such as LibreOffice, there are always several 
capabilities I know at sight I've never used and surely never will. (All 
I ever really use is the word processor, and that seldom.) Yumex usually 
lets me remove them, once I've checked its list of what all else it will 
take away along with them.

	But today's dnf update has added several of my removals back in 
-- things like calc and draw, emailmerge and graphicfilter.

	If I can, I would like to tell it not to do that. Or, if it has 
some reason that some sub-app I do have will fail without the others it 
wants to add, it should say so. I might prefer to remove the present sub-
app instead.

	Is there a way for the likes of me to do that? Some setting in 
dnf, perhaps? (I might know a line of code was one if it bit me, but I'd 
be unlikely to guess its meaning.)

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.



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