On 6/22/19 12:16 PM, Tim via users wrote:
But, yes, before posting that I didn't know what they were, I had
read
the package info, and it didn't particularly leave me any wiser.
$ dnf info openvswitch
Description: Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions
and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of
traffic.
Doesn't really tell me if that's some feature of networking that I
might be making use of without knowing about it.
OpenFlow is the protocol which allows one to remotely administer network switches of
disparate vendors.
So, unless that is what you're setting out to do you don't need it.
$ dnf info libhugetlbfs (with the missing "s" on the end
of it)
Description : libhugetlbfs is a library which provides easy access to
huge pages of memory. It is a wrapper for the hugetlbfs file system.
Applications can use huge pages to fulfill malloc() requests without
being recompiled by using LD_PRELOAD. Alternatively, applications can
be linked against libhugetlbfs without source modifications to load BSS
or BSS, data, and text segments into large pages.
Likewise, I can't tell, from that, whether it's a feature that my OS is
making use of at the moment, or might be at some time.
Well, since it is a library then it would only be used by processes/programs which
require
the library.
So, if you would do a "dnf erase libhugetlbf" it would also offer to erase
anything
depending on it. That will tell you if it is "needed".
> The second was to confirm that those packages were the ones that
> consumed the GID which was wanted.
Between your posts, and poking around with dnf and rpm queries, I
seemed to cleared up the problem with setting the computer on fire.
Yes, that's good.
--
Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color
scheme