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    • NerdyDadN
      NerdyDad
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      Just upgraded a desktop VM from Fedora 28 to Fedora 29. After running sudo dnf list extras, I get this:

      0_1540925504563_dnf sudo list extras.png

      I am currently running on kernel 4.18.16-300.fc29

      Is there any particular reason why I would want or need to hold on to the old kernel?

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      • black3dynamiteB
        black3dynamite @NerdyDad
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        @NerdyDad said in Unnecessary packages?:

        Just upgraded a desktop VM from Fedora 28 to Fedora 29. After running sudo dnf list extras, I get this:

        0_1540925504563_dnf sudo list extras.png

        I am currently running on kernel 4.18.16-300.fc29

        Is there any particular reason why I would want or need to hold on to the old kernel?

        You usually have three version in case one of the kernel is not compatible.

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        • NerdyDadN
          NerdyDad
          last edited by

          Okay, then I'll just hold on to it. Not like its taking up any more space than necessary. Thanks

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @NerdyDad
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            @NerdyDad said in Unnecessary packages?:

            Okay, then I'll just hold on to it. Not like its taking up any more space than necessary. Thanks

            Fedora only keeps 3 versions by default.

            I'm not sure what CentOS 7 does now, but Cent OS 6 used to keep them all.

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @JaredBusch
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              @JaredBusch said in Unnecessary packages?:

              @NerdyDad said in Unnecessary packages?:

              Okay, then I'll just hold on to it. Not like its taking up any more space than necessary. Thanks

              Fedora only keeps 3 versions by default.

              I'm not sure what CentOS 7 does now, but Cent OS 6 used to keep them all.

              So does Ubuntu.

              Keeping them all was highly annoying when /boot had to be it's own partition. That's been quite a while, thankfully.

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