Old, Unmaintained RPMs in Fedora Releases
Max Pyziur <[email protected]>
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Since upgrading to FC44 I've beeng comparing installed rpms on three machines that I keep current on Fedora. Each was built at a different earlier date. I've noticed that there is a lot of software that has gone stale and has not been updated in years (using a reference url to the software's website). Nevertheless, many of these rpms continue to be updated and included in subsequent releases. I've checked some of these for dependencies and deleted them. The process has been more-or-less brute force (sdiff'ng two lists of rpms from two machines, and then evaluating the differences, removing and adjusting accordingly). I don't want to be too hasty in removal. But continuing to keep stale/unmaintained packages might create some security problems. Considerations? Suggestions? Thank you, Max [email protected] -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new