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Posted Mar 19, 2013 0:02 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: packaging by geuder
Parent article: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

There are tools you might not be aware of

localectl (standard part of systemd)
package-cleanup --orphans
repoquery
rpmorphan package has rpmdep

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Posted Mar 19, 2013 12:39 UTC (Tue) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]

Thanks, these are useful pointers.

Currently I use on RHEL/CentOS, maybe Fedora some day again in connection with some distro hopping...

> localectl (standard part of systemd)

If it's systemd I guess it's Fedora only

> package-cleanup
> repoquery

Contained in package yum-utils

> rpmorphan

Doesn't seem to be in RHEL or EPEL.

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Posted Mar 19, 2013 14:32 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

This discussion was about Fedora originally but you can easily take the srpm from Fedora and build it for RHEL if you would like to, esp for rpmorphan.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=...

There are other alternatives for RHEL that might be available in EPEL. I haven't checked since I am not running EL.

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Posted Mar 19, 2013 22:42 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> > localectl (standard part of systemd)

> If it's systemd I guess it's Fedora only
Why do you think that? Quite a few distros have switched to systemd already, including openSUSE, Arch Linux, Mageia and others.

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Posted Mar 20, 2013 10:03 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

I guess it's fedora only v.s. fedora+rhel/centos.

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Posted Mar 21, 2013 17:58 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

rhel hasn't switched yet, though it will. :)