Olivier Blin a écrit :
Colin Guthrie<[email protected]> writes:
'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 07/08/12 12:54 did gyre and
gimble:
The package manager (urpmi) can also notify people because it sees which
installed packages are not in the configured repositories. Zypper even
removes such packages automatically. This would give users the choice to
keep an 'obsolete' package installed, while that choice doesn't exist
with task-obsolete.
urpmq --not-available?
This would also remove packages installed from third-party vendors,
there are still some proprietary RPM packages out there.
There is also this command:
urpmi_rpm-find-leaves -g
It finds unused library packages, or actually unused packages in the
System/Libraries group. But there are quite a few false-positive
results, because of packages incorrectly using System/Libraries as
group.
Tried it.
Being cautious, I left about 10 of the 50 or so packages listed. Most
listed were obviously useless, but otherwise hard to find. Used
rpmdrake to see their descriptions and remove them.
Some of the packages seemed to be used by others, if I'm not mistaken.
Maybe by suggests ?
For everyone's info, -g alone scans System/Libraries.
Using -g {group} will scan whatever other group.
In sum, a useful tool if used cautiously.
A lot better than task-obsoletes or whatever else that would remove
packages indiscriminately and/or automatically.
--
André
