What's on my system...

[DB]

DB wrote:
> 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)
>
Thanks, Tim, Carroll, POC for your hints & comments!!!!!  Let's see how 
much dark-brown-and-sticky I get into when I try my move to F10 -- last 
time, I got so many "don't do it" messages when I went to preupgrade, I 
wimped out......

Dave