What's on my system...

[DB]

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)