On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:24:13AM -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote:
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 08:18 +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:26 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote:
On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote:
I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing MATE from scratch from the GNOME3 desktop. Is that possible without ripping the heart out of C8 by deleting other critical packages?
I've attached a capture of "dnf erase *mate*" that shows the 104 packages that would be removed. It looks safe enough, but if there's a a better way to fix the problem I'd rather try that.
Having gotten no responses, I'm about ready to plunge ahead and try removing MATE v1.22 with dnf, then do a fresh reinstall of all packages. However, I'm unsure about the safest way to proceed.
If you look at the listing attached to my last message, you'll see three different groups of packages:
Removing: xxx Removing dependent packages: xxx Removing unused dependencies: xxx
I don't understand the meaning of the last group of "unused dependencies".
As I understand them, dependent packages are dependent on MATE. If MATE goes away they are useless.
Dependencies are packages MATE is dependent upon. Other things may also be dependent on those packages.
Unused dependencies are things that if MATE were removed have no other packages dependent on them. So MAYBE they are no longer needed and can be removed.
But be careful with these. Nothing may depend upon them, but you may use them. First in your list is ImageMagick. You may use this whether MATE is there or not.
The "--noautoremove option prevents removal of "unused dependencies". You can then take your list and see which you really don't need and remove them separately.
Jon