What's on my system...
DB
Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 17 15:59:31 UTC 2009
DB wrote:
> Hi all (today is my day for getting several ideas off my chest!!!!)
>
> Having used "shhhh, you know what" for many years, with its
> "add/remove programs" which tells when I last used a program; and its
> subset "add/remove windoze elements", I'm wondering how I can do the
> same in FC9.
>
> Recently, one of the threads here showed the yum --installed & yum
> extras, which I tried. a) I couldn't see any sort of "last used"
> indicator (or even better a "never used" indicator) b) the things I
> hand-install, like the driver for my (still not working) Creative
> Webcam or my Reiner cyberjack aren't (don't appear to be) listed.
>
> Since I want to migrate toward FC10, I'd like to find me a list of the
> things which I use, so as to have a more targeted installation,
> without all the bells, whistles, pots & pans that "someone" has
> decided I ought to have (and not to forget one of those essential "it
> only works if....." thingies). It'd also be "very nice" if it were
> possible to "reverse engineer" the installations I've made so as to
> produce my own installation script. And... how can I tell if a
> package is "mission critical" to the life of Fedora??
>
> On a lighter note, on the names of users, following on from "Mad
> Hatters", would the "Rant" specialists become "Red Queen" ("Off with
> her head"), and all the quiet users be "Dormouse" & get pushed back
> into the Teapot?????? :-))
>
> Thanks for any thoughts
>
> Dave in freezing Austria (currently -5C)
>
Thanks, Tim, Carroll, POC for your hints & comments!!!!! Let's see how
much dark-brown-and-sticky I get into when I try my move to F10 -- last
time, I got so many "don't do it" messages when I went to preupgrade, I
wimped out......
Dave
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