Is dnf autoremove safe?

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FWIW, @fasulia, as long as it is your autoremove list actually looks pretty safe to me. It’s mostly a few categories:

  1. A lot of Qt/KDE stuff, which unless you’re running KDE as a desktop or KDE applications you probably don’t need. The important Qt stuff like QtBase, QtGui, QtWidgets etc. isn’t there, it’s all ancillary libraries.
  2. Python modules, all the python2 stuff can go for sure if nothing’s using it, and the python3 packages look much like the Qt packages – stuff that’s believably extraneous if none of the packages that originally pulled them in are still installed.
  3. Really outdated GNOME stuff. (Remember ORBit?!!?) That can definitely go.

There are a few that are questionable (I have no idea what “wiiuse” is for, but you’d probably know if you use it or not), but it’s not like uninstalling any of those is going to lock you out of your system or anything. At worst, some software complains or functions a bit weirdly. Hopefully in fairly obvious ways so it’s easy to correct.

EDIT: Oh, you might want to sudo dnf mark install gstreamer-plugins-good, that’s probably useful even if DNF doesn’t know it. But that’s basically the only item on the list I’d be reluctant to flush.

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